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Posted by satrap
on June 25, 2024, 11:53 am, in reply to "President Truman desk at Summer White House Key West, FL"
Truman forced my branch, USMC, to desegregate in 1948 (close down Montford Point, where Black males were sent), and to allow Black women to join. The first Black women enlisted in 1949.
I was born in 1953, and because of him, I was able to enlist (1973).
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