How many of you all know anything about Jim Crow? (Part 35)

In 1947, President Harry S. Truman became the first president to speak to the NAACP.

In 1948, at the Democratic Convention, Truman endorsed a civil rights platform.

Senator Strom Thurman, lead a walkout during the convention in protest.

After being pressure by A. Phillip Randolph, Truman signed executive order #9981, desegregating the armed forces.,