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Development economics. The Point Four Program was a technical assistance program for "developing countries" announced by United States President Harry S. Truman in his inaugural address on January 20, 1949. It took its name from the fact that it was the fourth foreign policy objective mentioned in the speech.
Liberalism portal. Philosophy portal. v. t. e. The Fair Deal was a set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in 1945 and in his January 1949 State of the Union Address. More generally, the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953.
Executive Order 9835. President Harry S. Truman signed United States Executive Order 9835, sometimes known as the "Loyalty Order", on March 21, 1947. [1] The order established the first general loyalty program in the United States, designed to root out communist influence in the U.S. federal government. Truman aimed to rally public opinion ...
Truman giving his inaugural address on January 20, 1949. Harry S. Truman's inaugural address, known as the Four Point Speech, was delivered by United States president Harry S. Truman, on Thursday, January 20, 1949. In a world only recently emerged from the shadow of World War II, in which freedom and human rights seemed under threat from many ...
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 marked a turning point in the civil rights movement. His death sparked riots in over 100 cities and led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 , also known as the Fair Housing Act, which aimed to end discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
The 1949 State of the Union Address was given by Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, on Wednesday, January 5, 1949, to the 81st United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [1] It was Truman's fourth State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker Sam ...
Abolish poll taxes. Other measures. The President's Committee on Civil Rights was a United States presidential commission established by President Harry Truman in 1946. The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946, and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen ...
Truman carried the popular vote by 4.5 points and won 303 electoral votes to Dewey’s 189. Roper afterward conceded that pollsters “had gotten pretty smug, and I was one of the smuggest of the ...