Tag Archives: President’s Committee on the Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces

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: 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: 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: transmittal of two March 16 letters from Royall to the governors of Connecticut and Minnesota, 1949