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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We have come a long way in the 15 years since President Truman ordered the desegregation of the Armed Forces.”

On the recordJune 21, 1963
We have come a long way in the 15 years since President Truman ordered the desegregation of the Armed Forces.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Letters to the Secretary of Defense and to the Chairman, Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces, in Response to...

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