They joined the
military as part of the World War II effort to defeat totalitarian
regimes based on myths
of racial and national superiority. These African-American men and
women were well-aware of the large irony built into the fact that they
were serving in racially segregated units. They set out to prove that Black soldiers could fight and serve as well as any others, and that
they deserved equal status both inside the barracks and in the civilian
world from which they came.
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Source: The Library of Congress
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