![]() fought for the country and many of them identified as being deeply, deeply patriotic," Delmont says. ![]() Bill of 1944.ĭelmont's new book, Half American, chronicles Black Americans' quest to serve in World War II - and how their experiences in the war ultimately fueled the civil rights movement. After the war, Black veterans were largely left out of the benefits created by the G.I. "If they stepped even a foot outside of that, they were threatened or attacked by white police or sheriffs," Delmont says.ĭelmont says that Black troops sent to Europe during the war often found that they were treated better there than they were at home. Racial epithets and threats of violence were part of daily life on Southern military bases, and off base, African Americans were restricted to the "Black" sections of town. ![]() Black servicemen traveling to the Jim Crow South for training would pull down the shades on their train cars so that white townspeople wouldn't throw rocks at the windows. ![]()
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