African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II

From: Washington Afro-American | Date: May 6, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Lenneal J. Henderson
Washington Afro-American
05-06-1995
African-Americans fought racism on two fronts in World War II.

Historian Theodore Ropp writes that, "World War II killed more persons, cost more money, damaged more property, affected more people, and probably caused more far reaching changes than any other war in history." Clearly, not since the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction Period were the lives of African-Americans so profoundly jostled and jarred.

The world was altered by the war; mote than 10 million Allied and 6 millions Axis soldiers died; more ...

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