RACES: First Step

It was nearly a year since President Truman had ordered an end to discrimination in the Armed Forces, but with few exceptions, the Negro in uniform still had to eat Jim Crow and live in a second-class world. Prodded again by the White House, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson ordered the Army, Navy & Air Force to tell what they had done to carry out the Commander in Chief's order. Last week the answers were in.

The Army & Navy, Johnson decided, had pussyfooted; he ordered the admirals and generals to give him "additional clarifying information" about their programs. The...

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