Document 23.5 Letter from Black Soldiers, 1943
Letter from Black Soldiers, 1943
During World War II, many black soldiers and their families wrote to popular African American newspapers such as the Pittsburgh Courier to publicize discrimination in the armed forces. In the following letter to the editor, a group of black soldiers describes their mistreatment at an army base in Colorado, showing that racial discrimination was not confined to the South.
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Source: Philip McGuire, ed., Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983), 64–65.
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