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On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981 ordered the integration of the armed forces following World War II, a major advance in civil rights. [11] Using the executive order meant that Truman could bypass Congress. Representatives of the Solid South, all White Democrats, would likely have stonewalled related legislation.
It was a crucial event in the post-World War II civil rights movement and a major achievement of Truman's presidency. [2] [3] For Truman, Executive Order 9981 was inspired, in part, by an attack on Isaac Woodard who was an American soldier and African American World War II veteran. On February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged ...
A Southern Yankee is a 1948 American comedy western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy and Arlene Dahl. The film is loosely based on Buster Keaton's The General (1926). Skelton plays a Union soldier who spies on the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Keaton served as a technical advisor for the film.
Unlike the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy was integrated during the Civil War. During the 1840s, federal regulations limited black sailors to 5 percent of the enlisted force, but during the Civil War black participation grew to 20 per cent of the Union navy's total enlisted force, nearly double the percentage that served in the Army.
Less than a year after the Brown decision, the Montgomery bus boycott began—another important step in the fight for African-American civil rights. [28] Today, Brown v. Board of Education is largely viewed as the starting point of the Civil Rights Movement. [29] By the 1960s and 70s, the Civil Rights Movement had gained significant support.
It includes 1948 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for war films released in the year 1948 . It does not include unreleased films.
Civil War, too, decontextualises violence and deliberately tosses the entire idea of power out the window. We’re never told what this conflict is about, who might be oppressed, or what freedoms ...
Sword in the Desert is a 1949 American war film directed by George Sherman. It was the first American film to deal with the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and marked the first significant feature film role for Jeff Chandler .