Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Franklin Roosevelt, African Americans and the coming of World War II
  • Politics and the quest for an integrated military, 1937-1945
  • Harry Truman and civil rights, 1884-1945
  • Post-war utilization of the military and the creation of the President's Committee on Civil rights, 1945-1947
  • Politics and the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, 1948-1953
  • Historians debate Truman's civil rights record
  • Bibliography
  • Primary documents.