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samantha noonan
on Dec 20, 2024
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What prompted President Harry S. Truman to issue Executive Order 9981 to desegregate the military?
A) A. Phillip Randolph's threat of a boycott
B) the beginning of the Korean War
C) Soviet ridicule of American racism in the battlefield
D) the practical necessities of keeping up the Berlin Airlift
Executive Order 9981
An order issued by President Harry S. Truman in 1948 that abolished racial discrimination in the U.S. military.
- Examine the development of civil rights movements and their origins in the period following the war.
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Learning Objectives
- Examine the development of civil rights movements and their origins in the period following the war.