Truman and Civil Rights
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- Truman and Civil Rights
- 'To Secure These Rights' established 46, published 47
- police brutality
- lynching
- truman produced no anti-lynching laws or 'executive orders' as he had produced with other recommendations made
- voting rights
- 1944 18% blacks able to vote
- health
- BLACKS - 1 doctor to 3377 patients WHITES - 1 to 750
- education
- medical schools accepted no blacks
- schools seperate but never equal
- employment
- white teachers earnt 3 x black teachers
- William Haiste appointed 1st black federal judge
- CGCC 51 ensured gov contracts did not go to racist employers
- fair employment board
- de jure not de facto (under-funded)
- armed forces
- BLACKS - 1 in 70 promoted WHITES - 1 in 7 promoted
- truman desegregated in 59 but ittle effect until korea 50/51
- FAIR DEAL
- designed to provide housing for ghetto areas
- address economic problems for blacks
- actually demolished more houses than it created reducing availability of affordable housing
- designed to provide housing for ghetto areas
- 1948 election showed voting power of blacks which exceeded that of southern
- first president since lincoln to address civil rights issues
- put civil rights on political agenda for future presidents
- 'To Secure These Rights' established 46, published 47
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