This year during the spring and fall semester, Military and Veteran Services is hosting a series of events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of military integration through the passage of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 and Executive Order 9981.
The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 [Pub.L. 80-625, 62 Stat. 356] authorized women to permanently serve in all branches of the United States Armed Forces’ officer and enlisted ranks. Executive Order 9981, signed by Harry S. Truman, is one of the first official orders that initiated racial desegregation in the United States military.
Please join us to recognize monumental laws that forever changed the United States military.
All events will be free and open to the public via Zoom.
For more information, please contact Military and Veteran Services at veteranservices@siue.edu / 618-650-5425.
Poster display of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 and Executive Order 9981 on the first floor of Lovejoy Library Date: September 26th – November 10th
“WE RETURN FIGHTING”: African Americans, the Military, and Civil Rights presented by Bryan Jack, Ph.D., SIUE Department of History Date: Wednesday, September 13th at 12:00PM
MAVRC BOOK CLUB – September Meeting Book: What’s A Commie Ever Done to Black People? A Korean War Memoir Fighting in the U.S. Army’s Last All Negro Unit by Curtis James Morrow (McFarland & Company, 1997) Date: Thursday, September 28th at 12:00PM REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mavrc-bo...
"MORE APT TO BE DRAFTED, TO BE PLACED IN A COMBAT UNIT, AND TO MEET DEATH IN VIETNAM": African American Servicemen, the Draft, and the Rise of Racial Violence in Vietnam presented by Gerald F. Goodwin, Ph.D., the author of Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam (UMass Press, 2023) Date: Wednesday, October 4th at 2:00PM REGISTER HERE: https://siue.zoom.us/webinar/register...
Author Talk with Mary Cronk Farrell, the author of Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII (Abrams Books, 2019) Date: Wednesday, October 25th at 7:00PM REGISTER HERE: https://siue.zoom.us/webinar/register...
MAVRC BOOK CLUB – October Meeting Book: Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980 by Tanya Roth (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) Dr. Tanya Roth will be joining the October meeting to discuss Her Cold War! Date: Thursday, October26th at 12:00PM REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mavrc-bo...
The Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 [Pub.L. 80-625, 62 Stat. 356] authorized women to permanently serve in all branches of the United States Armed Forces’ officer and enlisted ranks. Executive Order 9981, signed by Harry S. Truman, is one of the first official orders that initiated racial desegregation in the United States military.
Please join us to recognize monumental laws that forever changed the United States military.
All events will be free and open to the public via Zoom.
For more information, please contact Military and Veteran Services at veteranservices@siue.edu / 618-650-5425.
Poster display of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act of 1948 and Executive Order 9981 on the first floor of Lovejoy Library
Date: September 26th – November 10th
“WE RETURN FIGHTING”: African Americans, the Military, and Civil Rights presented by Bryan Jack, Ph.D., SIUE Department of History
Date: Wednesday, September 13th at 12:00PM
MAVRC BOOK CLUB – September Meeting
Book: What’s A Commie Ever Done to Black People? A Korean War Memoir Fighting in the U.S. Army’s Last All Negro Unit by Curtis James Morrow (McFarland & Company, 1997)
Date: Thursday, September 28th at 12:00PM
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mavrc-bo...
"MORE APT TO BE DRAFTED, TO BE PLACED IN A COMBAT UNIT, AND TO MEET DEATH IN VIETNAM": African American Servicemen, the Draft, and the Rise of Racial Violence in Vietnam presented by Gerald F. Goodwin, Ph.D., the author of Race in the Crucible of War: African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam (UMass Press, 2023)
Date: Wednesday, October 4th at 2:00PM
REGISTER HERE: https://siue.zoom.us/webinar/register...
Author Talk with Mary Cronk Farrell, the author of Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII (Abrams Books, 2019)
Date: Wednesday, October 25th at 7:00PM
REGISTER HERE: https://siue.zoom.us/webinar/register...
MAVRC BOOK CLUB – October Meeting
Book: Her Cold War: Women in the U.S. Military, 1945-1980 by Tanya Roth (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Dr. Tanya Roth will be joining the October meeting to discuss Her Cold War!
Date: Thursday, October26th at 12:00PM
REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mavrc-bo...