In a 10-minute film from 1945, future-President Ronald Reagan tried to convince America why it needed flyers like the Tuskegee Airmen.

Lloyd "Fig" Newton was just the seventh African American to become a four-star general. He says Trump is trying to whitewash ...

Level the starting line, but let merit determine the finish line.” This principle captures the essence of diversity, equity, ...

their successes led to USAF being the first service branch of the government to be integrated—a process they initiated even before President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 in 1948 ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

In 1948, President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981, formally ending racial segregation in the military. The order mandated that every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine and Coast ...

However, their service helped pave the way for military desegregation in 1948 under President Truman’s Executive Order 9981. As Carter reflects on the exhibit, he hopes younger generations take ...

and lead President Truman in 1948 to implement Executive Order No. 9981, which integrated the U.S. military as a whole and paved the ground for the wider civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...