"It's all O.K. after the whites find out that the color doesn't rub off," said a Negro sergeant at the Air Force's big Lackland base at San Antonio. There, under the Air Force's 13-month-old policy of nondiscrimination, Negroes and whites had been sleeping in the same barracks, eating at the same mess tables, dancing at the same service clubs, using the same swimming pools. Last week, in broader terms and in careful officialese, President Truman's committee on discrimination reported a surprising amount of quiet progress in all the armed forces.
The Defense....
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