In July, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the presidential executive order that put in place, the committee established by the president on equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services. This helped to make the government stay with their stands on integrating the military that was seen to be segregated.
President Roosevelt had instituted the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) that directed the acceptance of blacks into job-training programs run in the defense plants. Truman allowed the congress to terminate FEPC but later brought it back when a recommendation on permanent FEPC was brought to him by the commission on civil rights, together with anti-lynching and anti-poll tax laws.
