ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: June 24, 1940 Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response
Despite the platform’s language, FDR never ordered the integration of the U.S. armed forces during his presidency. The policy of racial segregation in the military was entrenched in the 1940s, and it was not until the 1948 Executive Order 9981,
signed by President Harry S. Truman, that the U.S. Army formally
desegregated. FDR’s administration, even in the face of growing civil
rights advocacy, maintained the status quo in the military The New York Times Web Archive. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co
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