Hollywood doesn’t have the best track record for recognizing the talents of people of color, and it lags far behind the progress that the U.S. military has made since President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which created the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services and integrated the services in 1948.
These Black actors all followed their military service with careers that have broken down barriers in Hollywood and created opportunities for the men and women who followed them into the arts.
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