CLARISSA MYRICK-HARRIS WHITE, HISTORIAN: African-American men were patrolling the area ... that he's just voluntarily Black whenever it suits him, so he shouldn't have anything to say about ...
To add to the difficulties, most of the men lacked much experience handling heavy machinery. On October 25, 1942, an African American soldier and a white bulldozer-driving soldier shook hands ...
close Jim Crow lawsThe laws that introduced segregation in the US South (the laws that kept black people and white people apart ... over a million African American men joined the US military.
Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. He was ... and Spanish on the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE website.