Document 24.5 To Secure These Rights, 1947
<em>To Secure These Rights</em>, 1947
In 1946 President Truman appointed a committee to investigate racial discrimination and segregation in the United States. In response to the committee’s lengthy report released the following year, Truman issued executive orders to desegregate federal employment and the armed services in 1948. The following excerpt from the report explains the international conditions that prompted a change in American race relations.
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Source: To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947), 147.
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