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- Title
"Wherever the Authority of the Federal Government Extends": Banning Segregation in Veterans' Hospitals (1945–1960).
- Authors
Grillot, Thomas; Peretz, Pauline; Philippe, Yann
- Abstract
The article discusses the desegregation of the Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals in the 1950s, noting how the VA consistently attempted to avoid such actions during the 1940s in direct defiance of federals rules such as the 1944 G.I. Bill of Rights and President Harry S. Truman's 1948 Executive Order 9981. In response to a public outcry in 1953 when African American singer and pianist Hazel Scott cancelled a tour of VA hospitals in response to patient segregation, the VA system had a complete overhaul and by October of 1954 reported that all its care facilities were desegregated.
- Subjects
VETERANS' hospitals; SEGREGATION of African Americans; UNITED States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs; AMERICAN civil rights movement; UNITED States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944; DESEGREGATION of United States armed forces; AFRICAN Americans in the United States Armed Forces
- Publication
Journal of American History, 2020, Vol 107, Issue 2, p388
- ISSN
0021-8723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jahist/jaaa181