Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risksby Michael R. Gardner

2002 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-536
Author(s):  
Kevin J. McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Harry Truman

Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 262
Author(s):  
Joe P. Dunn ◽  
Michael R. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Harry Truman

Harry Truman and Civil Rights: Moral Courage and Political Risks

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Linda C. Gugin ◽  
Michael R. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Moral Courage ◽  
Political Risks ◽  
Harry Truman

Conclusion: Tatsuro, “Standing Man”

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Briones
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Fair Employment ◽  
Harry Truman ◽  
Federal Workforce ◽  
Government Contract

This concluding chapter discusses how the postwar period had remained charged with democratic possibility, though ideological retrenchment lingered both domestically and internationally. In an attempt to build on the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) initiated by FDR and A. Philip Randolph in 1941, which made it a crime for any company with a government contract to discriminate based on race or religion, President Harry Truman commissioned a Committee on Civil Rights in 1946 to study the problem of race relations and civil rights. Truman demonstrated how seriously he took the issue of civil rights by ordering the end of segregation in the federal workforce and the armed forces, two incredibly significant steps toward measurable progress and reform.

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