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Integration of the Armed Forces
"Segregation in the [U.S.] military services did not officially end until the Secretary of Defense announced on 30 September 1954 that the last all-black unit had been abolished." Site includes an armed forces integration chronology, and an illustrated history of African American military service during the colonial era, Civil War, World War I, and World War II. From Redstone Arsenal Historic Information.
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/welcome.html

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