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To: VRWCarea51

Wasn’t Woodrow Wilson that segregated the armed forces?


14 posted on 03/15/2015 1:43:06 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

The armed forces was segregated from the Civil War until after Truman’s order to integrate (which took several years to implement). Wilson introduced segregation in Washington, DC, government agencies.


35 posted on 03/15/2015 3:25:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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