Truman came by these beliefs from his upbringing in Missouri, where his grandparents had owned slaves and where 60 African Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950, the second-highest number of any state over that period outside the Deep South. ...
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It was on Truman`s orders that the atomic bombs on Hiroshima were dropped in August. The wartime bipartisanship at home frayed soon after the arrival of peace, along with the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union. On October 27, 1945, Truman delivered an address in New York City, in ...
Truman announced his domestic policy initiative, the “Fair Deal” program, in his 1949 State of the Union address. Building on Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” it included universal health care, an increase in the minimum wage, more funding for education and a guarantee of equal rights under the...
(2) June 29, 1947, speech to the NAACP; (3) civil rights committee's final report, To Secure These Rights; (4) January 7, 1948, State of the Union Address; (5) February 2, 1948, Special Message to Congress on Civil Rights; (6) relation to the 1948 Democratic Party convention and...
1982. He and Bess are buried at the Truman Library in independence,Missouri. Bess Truman opted for a simple private service at the library for her husband because of her advanced age and frail health, though a state funeral inWashingtonhad been planned. Foreign dignitaries, instead, attended a...
Harry S. TrumanU.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman, oil on canvas by Greta Kempton, 1947; in the collection of the White House. 33rd president of the United States Written by Alfred Steinberg Writer and historian. Author ofMan from Missouri: The Life and Times of Harry S. Trumanand others. ...
monstrous super-states, each possessed of a weapon by which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds.” It was first used in the United States by the American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch in a speech at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1947...
He also recognized the new state of Israel. On the home front, Truman was faced with the challenge of transitioning America to a peacetime economy. Amid labor disputes, a shortage of consumer goods and a national railroad strike, he saw his approval ratings plummet. He ran for reelection in...
The US State Department intended to assist Greece and Turkey in reducing their long-standing rivalry. Soviet Communism The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) advocated for a centralized command economy with a one-party state to achieve a proletarian dictatorship. It entails the advancement ...