Trump's executive order halting DEI means the Air Force no longer teaches recruits about WWII's Tuskegee Airmen and the Women ...

Proponents of military segregation once argued that integration would threaten unit cohesion and effectiveness before former ...

Truman raised the minimum wage and expanded Social Security. Truman desegregated the United States military. Legacy: Harry S. Truman enacted some important first steps in civil rights while protecting ...

among other events, helped prove African Americans' abilities, leading eventually to President Truman's depression of the military in 1948.

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948, has... Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to ...

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 ...