Will you cover WW2's Impact on kick starting the US civil rights movement?

[NormanStewart]

I’ve covered that a few times earlier this year :

Racism of the US Army - Fighting for Freedom? - WW2 Special

Disclaimer: I have discussed this video with a friend of mine and history buff from Georgia whom I shall call JD at his request and this is what we thought of the video. We thought it would be a neutral take on segregation in the United States. Little did we realize how disappointed we would be. I won’t be discussing minor mistakes, like his pronunciations of certain names, because the content matters more here. And at the end, I would suggest improvements to the video (this entire post should…

Racism of the US Army - Fighting for Freedom? - WW2 Special

There, on the front lines, these colored units are rarer than you might think. You see, 80% of all black servicemen will never leave the United States. Partly because other members of the United Nations, such as Australia, request the U.S. to not send too many people of color to not upset the white population. So, what he said about Australia isn’t untrue. The Australian government, in Dec. 1941, asked that the U.S. not send blacks. The U.S. basically responded with, “Screw you, we’ll send wh…

On Bamber Bridge:

American Race Relations

You mean this incident? Once again, like with my Racism in the U.S. Army post, JD helped me out here as well. Even this article wrote more on it, though it is also guilty of emotional language to rile you up: It’s not nearly as cute and cheeky as implied. Remove the racial elements and what you have here is a story of undisciplined drunken soldiers who disobeyed orders, assaulted MPs, and then took up arms against the military authority. This isn’t “stunning or brave.” Any historian wor…