Building Bridges
The previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integration in the US armed forces.
More than 80 percent of Black GIs in World War II served behind the front lines. At the beginning of the war, segregation policies maintained physical separation of Black and white GIs and only allowed Black soldiers to do simple, menial work, maintaining a false ...
The previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integration in the US armed forces.
More than 80 percent of Black GIs in World War II served behind the front lines. At the beginning of the war, segregation policies maintained physical separation of Black and white GIs and only allowed Black soldiers to do simple, menial work, maintaining a false ...
