'If teachers are unable to talk honestly about this history, students and citizens will have an impoverished idea of what it meant for Black soldiers to fight for America during World War II,' writes Matthew F. Delmont
, for example, outlaws any teaching that “an individual, by virtue of his race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”
For example, it is not possible to understand World War II without understanding the experiences of Black Americans. More than one million Black troops served in the armed forces in the war. They fought courageously in combat when given the opportunity and formed the backbone of the U.S. military’s logistical and supply forces, serving in units like Evers’ 325th Port Company. After defeating fascism abroad, these Black veterans then returned home to fight for freedom and democracy in America.
When Evers returned from fighting Nazi Germany, he found that a similar racial ideology continued to hold sway in the Jim Crow South. On June 29, 1945, for example, Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland rose to speak on the floor of the Senate. He described Black soldiers as “dismal failures” in combat and said they “have disgraced the flag of their country.”
Eastland, the junior senator from Evers’ home state, was not elected democratically. Due to decades of racial discrimination, poll taxes, intimidation, and violence, less that 1% of Black adults in Mississippi were registered to vote. In a state with a population of more than 2 million people, nearly half of whom were Black, Eastland won his Senate seat on the strength of fewer than 75,000 white votes. In Washington, D.C.
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