War Stories: African American Soldiers and the Long Civil Rights Movement-U.S.

Central Question
Learning Objective
Introduction
Historical Background 
Primary Sources       
Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr., Excerpts from Oral History Interview, October 2010
“Racial Situation in the United States,” Army Reports, 1944–1945  
Memorandum for Major General S. G. Henry, Army Assistant Chief of Staff, “Participation of Negro Soldiers in the Post- war Military Establishment,” 1944 
Spencer Moore, 92nd Buffalo Soldier Division, Letters to Mom and Dad, 1944–1945         
Joe Willie Johnson, Letters to Wife, Mary Alice Hubbard Johnson, from Italy, 1944–1945         
Letter to President Truman from the Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, National Archives, 1948      
Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9981, On the Desegregation of the Military, 1948        
Felix Goodwin, Excerpts from Oral History Interview, 1998  
Project Questions
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Additional Resources for Research