All are welcome to the next SOARA General Meeting on Monday, March 21 at 7pm at the Norman P Murray Center in Mission Viejo. This month’s speaker is Carl Gardenias, WU6D, Section Manager for the Amateur Radio Relay League Orange Section. HAM Radio Testing is available at 6pm.
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 ... [...]