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| Title: | Press release for Executive Order No. 9981, establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces |
| Date: | 1948 July 26 |
| Description: | This press release includes the full text of Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry S. Truman on July 26, 1948. This mandated "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Executive orders |
| Subjects: | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 | Civil rights--United States | African Americans--Civil rights | Race discrimination--United States | Social justice--United States | United States--Armed Forces--African Americans | Executive orders--United States | Washington (D.C.) |
| Collection: | African American Odyssey |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | NAACP Collection, Manuscript Division. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Related Materials: | Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/09/0901001r.jpg |
