Rupert Trimmingham
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Rupert Trimmingham
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Rupert Stanley Trimmingham was a corporal in the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II who is noted for writing a letter that was published in Yank, the Army Weekly that attracted wide attention to the plight of black American soldiers in World War II. It was an early step in the process that, along with other publicized outrages involving black American soldiers, eventually resulted in President Harry S. Truman issuing Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the United Stat
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers corporal (1899–1985)
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