Fahy Committee

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Path to Executive Order 9981
1. Civil War to WWII2. Executive Order 88023. Double V Campaign4. Racial Violence At Home5. To Secure These Rights
Executive Order 9981
6. Why Executive Order 99817. Passing of Executive Order 99818. Fahy Committee - Oversee successful integration of the U.S. Armed Services
Breaking Barriers
9. Integrating the U.S. Armed Services10. Desegregation of U.S. Armed Services Accomplished11. Reactions to Executive Order 9981
10. Significance of EO 9981
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The Fahy Committee, also known as the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services was established on July 26, 1948 to oversee successful integration of the Armed Services.

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The committee developed a guiding principle for getting rid of the nation’s racial caste system and specifically called for actions such as federal anti-lynching legislation, abolishing poll taxes, ending ballot box discrimination, and desegregating the military. The committee said that “a government that demands service from its citizens without respect to color, has no moral or legal right, to set bounds to that service because of color”.

~ Fahy Committee

“As a result of its examination into the rules, procedures, and practices of the armed services, both past and present, the Committee is convinced that a policy of equality of treatment and opportunity will make for a better Army, Navy, and Air Force. It is right and just. It will strengthen the nation.”

~ Fahy Committee