More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military in preparation for the wars in Europe and Asia that would soon engulf the U.S.
Secret Recordings Show President Roosevelt Debating Military Desegregation with Civil Rights Leaders
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