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Summary: From Segregation To Integration

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From Segregation to Integration: Black troops in the U.S Armed Forces:
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Early African American troops and how these events are only the beginning of blacks gaining their rights as humans.
Civil war (54th Massachusetts)
Plain Indian Wars and the Spanish American War (Buffalo Soliders)

The lives of all black units of both World Wars and the courage they gave to other AA.
World War I (369th Infantry/ 93rd Infantry)
World War II ( Tuskegee Airman)

The slow desegregation of the Armed Forces and why these orders were put into action in the first place
Executive Order 9981
Directive 5120.36

AA troops after Truman’s decision to desegregate the United States Armed Forces.
Leon Gilbert’s case after disobeying his white commander’s order

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