The Taft-Hartley labor law moderately restricted union activity. Truman raised the minimum wage and expanded Social Security. Truman desegregated the United States military. Legacy: Harry S. Truman ...
Nancy Leftenant-Colon became the first African-American woman to serve in the desegregated ... when President Harry S. Truman signed the executive order ending segregation in the military ...
Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed ...