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

Although President Truman presided over major advances in civil rights, desegregating the government and armed forces, there was little in his background to give NAACP leaders hope of progress. | American Experience | PBS

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