CHRONOLOGY

• – Postwar labor unrest.
• – President’s Committee on Civil Rights is created.
• – Employment Act.
• – Republicans gain control of Congress.

• – Mendez v. Westminster.

• – Truman orders desegregation of military.
• – American GI Forum is founded.
• – Truman is elected president.

• – Senator Joseph McCarthy claims U.S. government harbors Communists.