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Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
The experiences in World War II and the postwar pressures
generated by the civil rights movement compelled all the services—Army, Navy,
Air Force, and Marine Corps—to reexamine their traditional practices of
segregation. While there were differences in the ways that the services moved
toward integration, all were subject to the same demands, fears, and prejudices
and had the same need to use their resources in a more rational and economical
way. All of them reached the same conclusion: traditional attitudes toward
minorities must give way to democratic concepts of civil rights.
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