5.2K views · 94 reactions | "He emerges as a compromise candidate. 'The Missouri Compromise,' some people say." On May 8, 1884, President Harry Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri. | American Experience | PBS | Facebook

On December 5th, 1946, Harry Truman signed an executive order establishing the President's Committee on Civil Rights, charged with exposing the violence used to enforce segregation and making recommendations on how to protect the rights of all Americans. The move was a surprise to both political observers and Civil Rights advocates. But Truman's views had recently been transformed by the violent treatment of a Black G.I. named Isaac Woodard. Stream THE BLINDING OF ISAAC WOODARD on YouTube and th