Rawn James: 2 books
The Double V
How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years...
Root and Branch
Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Branch...