Freedom to Serve: Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981 (Critical Moments in American History) - Hardcover

Taylor, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415894492 ISBN 13: 9780415894494

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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On the eve of America's entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman's decision to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which resulted in the integration of the armed forces, was an important event in twentieth Jon E. Taylor gives an account of the presidential order as an event which forever changed the U.S. armed forces, and set a political precedent for the burgeoning civil rights movement. Including press releases, newspaper articles, presidential speeches, and biographical sidebars, Freedom to Serve introduces students to an underexamined event while illuminating the period in a new way. Critical Moments in American History is a series of supplemental books designed specifically for undergraduate history courses, providing students with the opportunity to examine a specific event within the context of both narrative history and primary source documents.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415894492
• ISBN 13: 9780415894494
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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