Truman raised the minimum wage and expanded Social Security. Truman desegregated the United States military. Legacy: Harry S. Truman enacted some important first steps in civil rights while protecting ...

Barry Goldwater supporters at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Truman committed the Democrats to civil rights. After the party splintered, Strom Thurmond ran as the candidate of the States ...

The party unexpectedly approved the civil rights plank, and Harry Truman, widely expected to lose the election, ran on it. He quickly desegregated the military and the federal workforce.

A Missouri federal district court denied a partial motion to dismiss a Black female temporary guest services employee’s race and retaliation claims alleging that Truman Medical Center violated Title ...

The lawsuit claims a spa concierge at the Omni Hotel was repeatedly targeted with inappropriate comments about her race.