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Hubert Humphrey

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Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the “cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed” Mississippi Delta as “the deepest South.”

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In World War II, the US army allowed African Americans to fight in the armed forces. Their efforts were successful, leading to more diversity in the US armed forces.

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African American Soldiers in World War II, For Love of Liberty Documentary

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Buffalo Soldiers arrive in Italy in 1944, an excerpt from the World War II chapter of For Love of Liberty documentary. Buffalo soldiers were courageous black soldiers in the U.S. Army. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVfhx17INic

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In 1948 President Truman signed Executive Order 9981,

which desegregated the army and the civilian government.

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"Soldiers were fighting the world's worst racist, Adolph Hitler, in the world's most segregated army,"

says historian and National Geographic explorer in residence Stephen Ambrose.

"The irony did not go unnoticed."

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