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October 9, 2018

Freeman Airfield

Lynae Sowinski

In 1948, President Truman signed an executive order that desegregated the U.S. military. While protests against segregation had occurred for years across the country, a nonviolent act of disobedience by African American officers at an Army base in Seymour, Indiana, reportedly contributed to Truman’s decision. Pictured here with a hidden camera, 101 arrested officers are about to board transports bound for Godman Army Field in Kentucky to be court-martialed. | Public domain

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Lynae Sowinski
Vice President, Board of Directors at Limestone Post
Lynae joined Limestone Post in the summer of 2015. She works with all contributors and manages the editorial content for the site.

A Bloomington native, Lynae graduated with honors from Indiana University’s School of Journalism in 2012 with a minor in sociology. She started her editing career at Bloom Magazine as a high school intern and, over the course of almost eight years, advanced to the position of associate editor. Among other duties, she managed the website, magbloom.com, which won Best Journalism Website in 2012 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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