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- Birth nameTruman Kella Gibson Jr.
- Truman Gibson was born on January 22, 1912 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is known for The Negro Soldier (1944), To Tell the Truth (2016) and American Experience (1987). He was married to Isabelle Gibson. He died on December 23, 2005 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- SpouseIsabelle Gibson(? - 2001) (her death, 1 child)
- He fought racial discrimination in the Army in World War II as a high level adviser in the War Department and later became a powerful pro boxing promoter.
- He sought to persuade the Army to use Black troops in combat and investigated complaints from Black soldiers facing indignities and sometimes violence during their training in the USA.
- Graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 and obtained a degree from its law school in 1935.
- During World War II, he worked with the federal government to end discrimination within the U.S. Armed Forces. After the War, he became a boxing promoter.
- Truman K. Gibson, Jr. was the last surviving member of the "Black Cabinet," of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, which helped with the struggle to bring civil rights to, and end segregation in the U.S. military.
- There must be an intelligent awareness of where we stand in the changes going on about us, and we must be prepared to take advantage of these changes and insist on our rights.
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