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The President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, or the Fahy Committee was formed by President
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. This committee consisted of Charles H. Fahy as chairman and six other members, two of whom were African-American. The committee's main purpose was to oversee successful racial integration of the US Armed Forces. President Truman abolished the commission on July 6, 1950, on what he termed successful completion of integration in the armed forces.


Membership

The committee consisted of the following 7 members: * Charles H. Fahy (chairman), former
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* Alphonsus J. Donahue, businessowner from Connecticut * Lester Granger, president of the
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* William E. Stevenson, president of Oberlin College However, Alphonsus Donahue died in July 1949 and Charles Luckman was not active in the committee, reducing the number of members who submitted the committee's final report to 5.


Report

The committee's findings were published in their final report ''Freedom to Serve: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services'' on 22 May 1950. The committee argued that segregation was detrimental to the military's efficiency, in contrast to the claims of pro-segregation officials including the Secretary of the Army, Air Force, and Navy.


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Freedom to Serve: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services
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