Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin in the U.S. Armed Forces was abolished by Harry Truman’s 1948 Executive order 9981. Much happened to grant more rights to ...

That began to change when President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 in 1948, mandating equal treatment and opportunity for military personnel regardless of race, color or creed ...

The executive order signed Tuesday calls for broad election ... including allowing an enemy to target the USS Harry S. Truman during the aircraft launch as well as allowing air defenses to prepare ...

4/8/1952: President Truman signs executive order 10340. The Supreme Court declared this executive order unconstitutional in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co v. Sawyer (1952).

After the fighting, 35 of the Black troops were court martialled and 28 were convicted of mutiny with Eugene Nunn also being ...

The order declares that employees will only attain full employment status if their managers review and sign off on their ...

President Trump signed multiple executive orders on Wednesday targeting the country’s education system, from discipline in ...

President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees ...

President Trump signed seven executive orders, including ones targeting artificial intelligence (AI) use in the classroom as ...

The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.