<![CDATA[Sixty Years After Desegregation, Ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"]]>

1.0 link 115477 <![CDATA[Sixty Years After Desegregation, Ending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/sixty-years-after-desegre_b_115477.html Sixty years ago, on July 26, 1948, President Harry S Truman singlehandedly desegregated the United States military.

While that statement is true, it does not tell the whole story, since nothing is quite that easy. The military resisted fiercely, and it took years to actually achieve full racial integration of the military. It wasn't until March 18, 1951 that the Defense Department announced that all basic training had been integrated, much less the entire armed forces (which took even longer). The...

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