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On this date president Truman sent out an executive order stating "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." This is important to the civil rights movement because it was the start of the African Americans being equal
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