Laws of Diversity

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Laws of Diversity
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Executive Order 9981

• 1948-President Truman
• Desegregation of armed services

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Tuskegee Airmen

• African American pilots who fought during WWII
• 1st African American aviators

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Womens Armed Service Integration Act

• 1948
• Enabled women to serve as permanent, regular
  members of the armed forces in the Army, Navy,
  Marine Corps, and the recently formed Air Force
• October 1949 a new Army regulation decreed that
  mothers with dependent children were ineligible
  to serve in the military, and female servicewomen
  with children under the age of 18 were
  discharged. This regulation was finally repealed
  in the 1970s, when Congress passed a law which
  allowed women with dependent children to enlist.

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Brown v. Board of Education

• 1954
• Overturned Plessy v. Fergusson
• Declared state laws establishing separate public
  schools for black and white students and denying
  black children equal educational opportunities
  unconstitutional.

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