Notes
- ^ "Executive Order 9808, Establishing the President's Committee on Civil Rights, Harry S Truman" from Federal Register, retrieved January 23, 2006. For more details on the assigned tasks of the committee, see President's Committee on Civil Rights. To Secure These Rights: The Report of Harry S. Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. Boston: St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN 0-312-40214-7
- ^ "Agency History, Records of the President's Committee on Civil Rights Record Group 220" from the Truman Presidential Museum & Library, retrieved January 23, 2006
- ^ President's Committee on Civil Rights. To Secure These Rights (2004).
- ^ "Executive Order 9980, Regulations Governing Fair Employment Practices Within the Federal Establishment," and "Executive Order 9981, Establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, Harry S Truman" from Federal Register, retrieved January 23, 2006. For more details on the desegregation of the armed forces see, "Truman Library: Desegregation of the Armed Forces Online Research File" from the Truman Presidential Museum & Library, retrieved May 4, 2010
- ^ "Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights, Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953" on February 2, 1948, from the Truman Presidential Museum & Library, retrieved January 21, 2006
- ^ http://trumanlibrary.org/calendar/viewpapers.php?pid=2059
- ^ Zinn (2003:189)
- ^ http://www.trumanlibrary.org/civilrights/srights4.htm
- ^ Zinn (2003:190)
- ^ Gardner (2003: xi)
- ^ Gardner (2003: 13)
- ^ Gardner (2003: 20)
- ^ Gardner (2003: 21)
- ^ Gardner (2003: 22)
- ^ Gardner (2003: 18)
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