Category Archives: New Deal and World War II: African Americans in the Military

National Archives Records: Discrimination against African American military personnel, employment of African Americans in defense industries, combat record of African American military units, and praise for African American personnel involved in D-Day operations, 1940-1945, 1940-1945

National Archives Records: Discrimination against African American personnel and plans to transfer Tuskegee Airmen fighter squadrons to an active theater of war, and resignation of William H. Hastie as civilian aide to the secretary of war, 1943, 1943

National Archives Records: Racial incidents on military bases, and plans for assignment of African American personnel to theaters of operation and overseas stations, 1943, 1943

National archive records: Racial discrimination on military bases, and critical assessment of the combat efficiency of the 99th Fighter Squadron, 1943

National archive records: Racial discrimination on military bases, and critical assessment of the combat efficiency of the 99th Fighter Squadron, 1943

National Archives Records: Tuskegee Airmen, missions flown by the 302nd Fighter Squadron, 301st Fighter Squadron, and 100th Fighter Squadron, February 1944, 1944

National Archives Records: Tuskegee Airmen, missions flown by the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302nd Fighter Squadrons in Europe, February-March 1945, 1945

National Archives Records: Tuskegee Airmen, missions flown by the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302nd Fighter Squadrons in Europe, October-December 1944, 1944

National Archive Records: Delivery of P-40 airplanes to the 99th Fighter Squadron at Tuskegee, and activation of the 366th Materiel Squadron, 367th Materiel Squadron, 96th Maintenance Group, Communications Detachment, Weather Detachment, and 83rd Interceptor Control Squadron, 1941-1942, 1941-1942

National Archive Records: 761st Tank Destroyer Battalion, November 1944-March 1945, 1944-1945

Bill text: To authorize and request the President to award a Presidential Unit Citation to the 761st Tank Battalion., 1967

National Archive Records: Tuskegee Airmen, bombing and other missions flown by the 99th Fighter Squadron in Europe,, 1944

National Archive Records: Tuskegee Airmen, bombing and other missions flown by the 99th Fighter Squadron in Europe, 1944-1945

National Archive Records: Tuskegee Airmen, bombing and other missions flown by the 99th Fighter Squadron in airspace over Italy and Sicily, March-June 1944, 1944

National Archive Records: Tuskegee Airmen, bombing and other missions flown by the 99th Fighter Squadron in airspace over Italy and Sicily, June 1943-February 1944, 1943-1944

National Archive Records: 99th Pursuit Squadron, September 1943-January 1945, 1943-1945

National Archives Records: Status of 93rd Infantry Division, African American officers, public opposition to proposal to use African American personnel as guards at military bases and investigation of the 76th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, 1942-1943, 1942-1943

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: concerning the Interpretation of the President’s Order establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services commentary interpreting the policy established by Executive Order 9981 as a policy of desegregation and not merely separate but equal treatment of African Americans in light of the ideals of democracy; the president’s concern for civil rights; and official U.S. public policy as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, statutes, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, and executive pronouncements, 1949

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: suggested changes in the language of the president’s message on civil rights, 1949

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: appeal from Americans for Democratic Action urging the president to issue an executive order abolishing segregation and discrimination in the armed forces and to create an advisory commission to facilitate the process, 1950

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: comments on proposed experiment for integrating African American soldiers in military units, 1950

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of statement made by Royall before the Fahy Committee discussing his views on army policy with respect to African Americans, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: conference with Mr. Fahy and Mr. Kenworthy: comments on Fahy Committee’s future agenda, including investigation of the feasibility of the air force’s integration proposal, reason behind the low number of African American marine corps officers, whether the committee should regard segregation in itself as discriminatory, the matter of discrimination in the National Guard, and whether the intent of the Gillem Board was to eliminate segregation in the entire army, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: request for a timetable projecting the speed at which recommendations of the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services will be put into effect, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: a. Progress Report for the President: report on progress made by the Fahy Committee after examining the policies and practices of the three military branches and conferring with armed services officials, 1952

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: proposal to establish an experimental, voluntary, nonsegregated army post, provided that the navy and air force do the same, of approximately five thousand men, selected in an impartial and representative manner, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: war Department Policies and Practices Related to Civil Rights: responses to inquiries of President’s Committee on Civil Rights on War Department policies and practices regarding minorities, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: Negroes in the Armed Forces Prepared by Milton D. Stewart and Joseph Murtha: memorandum describing various policy statements on the recruitment, utilization, and treatment of African American troops issued by each military branch and the administrative actions taken to implement those policies, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: acknowledgment of August 25 letter in which Edmonds seeks further information on the status of the army’s desegregation plan, 1947

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of memorandum asking whether proposed letters were ever mailed to the governors of Connecticut and Minnesota confirming segregation policy as to state National Guard units; answers to several similar inquiries are now required, 1948

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter from Connelly informing Grant Reynolds that the president will be unable to meet with him and A. Philip Randolph to discuss issuance of an executive order ending military segregation and suggesting that he raise the matter with the secretary of defense instead, 1948

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of letter to the secretary of defense in which Beauharnais expresses his disgust over the policy of nonsegregation in the armed forces and his opinion that it goes against natural law? to force whites to associate so closely with African Americans against their wills, 1948

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of list of names and capsule histories of regular army African American officers, 1949

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Truman Administration’s civil rights program, desegregation of the armed forces: transmittal of two March 16 letters from Royall to the governors of Connecticut and Minnesota, 1949

Presidential Papers of Harry S. Truman: Statistics, Summary of the Problems and Recommendations, Policy on Participation of Personnel in Demonstrations, Congressional Relations, Reactions to Initial Report, Results, Cooperation between Civil Rights Groups and Military Base Commanders, The White House Staff Files, June 24-October 9, 1963, 1963

Presidential Papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower: Eisenhower confidential subject file, Racial Affairs, 1955-1956