When Did Desegregation Happen In America?
When Did Desegregation Happen In America? Exactly 62 years ago, on May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated schools What year did the US desegregate? On 26 July 1951, exactly three years after Truman issued Executive Order 9981, the US army formally announced its plans to desegregate. On 12 October 1972, a