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Sharp Fight Is Expected Over Segregation: Senate Gets Set To Take Up Extension Of Draft This Week

June 18, 1950

Discusses President Truman’s efforts to gradually end segregation within the armed forces and the reactions that followed that decision.

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South’s Negro Leaders Hit Disobedience

April 22, 1948

Describes that there were discrepancies between Black leaders on how to handle segregation within a potential military draft.

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