On this day in history, June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill, an act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services for their service and ...
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill into law on June 22, 1944. It was officially called the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. The bill was created to help those returning from the ...
"This whole system was in place to stop 1.2 million Black veterans from taking advantage of probably the greatest social welfare program in the history of this country."-Derek Mosley on the ...