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As President, he did put forward many civil rights programs but they were met with a lot of resistance by southern Democrats.
However, he used presidential executive orders to end discrimination in the armed forces, denied government contracts to firms with racially discriminatory practices.
Except for nondiscrimination provisions of the Housing Act of 1949, Truman had to be content with civil rights ' gains achieved by executive order or through the federal courts.
Vaughan argues that by continuing appeals to Congress for civil rights legislation, Truman helped reverse the long acceptance of segregation and discrimination by establishing integration as a moral principle.
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