The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946, and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them.

[4] Furthermore, the report raised the distinct possibility that the UN Charter from 1945 could also be used as a source of law to fight persistent racial discrimination in the US.

[6] The President's Committee on Civil Rights report also paved way for African-American diplomats to break into previously white-dominated positions.

Under President Truman, Edward R. Dudley would become the first African American given an ambassadorship, in part due to the findings of race-relations from the committee.

Even with the committee's findings, President Truman had trouble acting on his own research, due to domestic backlash.