In the lead up to and during World War II the military establishment continued to maintain that African-Americans soldiers were not as capable as their white counterparts and needed more intensive ...

National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture. According to a report commissioned by the Army War College ...

Webpages that once shared stories of historic Black Americans and Native Americans disappeared this week, and, while those pages have since returned, the impact of that absence sent shockwaves ...

The National World War II Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American ...

He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the 555th ... “A true American.” U.S. Marine Corps veteran ...

Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 ... To evaluate his number, I combed through sources that would have been available to him. I quickly learned one ...