The First African American Ambassador Challenges Jim Crow Policies | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how the first African American Ambassador to Liberia, Edward R. Dudley, challenged the U.S. State Department’s Negro Circuit, which violated the 1946 Foreign Service Act, in these videos adapted from The American Diplomat | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. President Truman’s executive order desegregating the federal government paved the way for Ambassador Dudley, a former NAACP lawyer, to pursue equity within the U.S. Foreign Service.