 Hi, my name is Jen Johnson and I'm a curator at the National Archives Museum, and today we are looking at two documents that were signed almost 75 years ago today. On July 26, 1948 Truman signed Executive Orders 9980 and 9981, desegregating the Federal Workforce and the U.S. Armed Forces. Executive Orders can be issued by a president and carry the force of law, and Truman and his advisors felt that these two Executive Orders could serve as a model for the rest of American society. You can see both of these records on display from July 25 through July 31, and they're also available online.