On Aug 26, 2010, at 2:16 PM, SA wrote:
> I'd be interested in hearing an explanation of how the Cold War influenced Truman's decision on desegregating the armed forces.
If I'm remembering right, I read it in a book by the late economist Lynn Turgeon. It must have been State and Discrimination: The Other Side of the Cold War (Sharpe, 1989).
Doug