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President Truman wanted to provide equal rights and opportunities for all Americans.
The action that was taken by president Harry Truman in 1948 to further the cause of civil rights was to issue two executive orders. One of these orders banned segregation in the military. The other order fair employment practices in civil service jobs.
A presidential veto.
Truman's request that the Congress act to mitigate discrimination against blacks did not result in any congressional action. The Presidential Committee on Civil Rights reported to the President that racial discrimination continued blocking Blacks from jobs, education, civil rights, and did nothing to stop lynching. When a combination of Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked Truman's civil rights programs, Truman issued an executive order that banned discrimination in the army, navy, civil service jobs, and in companies that did business with the federal government. Under Truman, the Supreme Court ordered some southern states to admit blacks to state supported professional schools because the segregated medical and legal training they offered blacks was not equal in quality to that provided for whites. Truman's Civil Rights program was moderate. He did not attack Jim Crow laws, which "legally" allowed segregation laws to be passed. But the "Man from Missouri" did more for civil rights than FDR.
Policy on Civil Rights. Truman supported Civil Rights and organised desegregation of the Armed Forces.
In the Election of 1948, Harry S. Truman ran, most notably, against Thomas Dewey of the Republican Party. Other 1948 Presidential Candidates were J. Strom Thurmond of the State's Rights Party, Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party, and Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party.
Some Americans disagreed with Truman's support of civil rights for African Americans.
President Truman demobilized the armed forces in the hope to unite the Democrats. He wanted to give civil rights to minorities without alienating segregationists.
Keeping inflation under control was President Truman's greatest challenge in reconverting to peacetime economy. Truman was the 33rd U.S. President.