All are welcome to the next SOARA Spring Auction on Monday May 18 at 7pm at the Norman P Murray Center in Mission Viejo. Clean out the HAM shack and pick up a new project in the same evening! Auction information can be found here.
President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981—ending discrimination in the military—on July 26, 1948. Truman’s order ended a long-standing practice of segregating Black soldiers and relegating them to more menial jobs. African Americans had been serving in the United States military ... [...]