Beyond these, African Americans and other ethnic minority servicemen had to undergo their training in communities run by Jim Crow laws, enforced by active chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Another special problem of great importance in Selective Service operations was the mobilization of Negro registrants and other minority groups of this nature.
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President Harry S. Truman ordered the end of military segregation with his Executive Order 9981 in 1948, but racial discrimination and segregation continued in the U.S. armed forces through the Korean War.
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