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By 1900, segregation seemed an unstoppable force, but black Virginians spent decades fighting discrimination in the military, schools, and public places.
Serving While Segregated: African Americans and the Military
In World War II, Americans fought enemies in Europe and the Pacific who used ideas of racial superiority to justify aggressive expansionism. This irony was not lost on black Americans, who nonetheless bravely answered the call to arms, fighting for the "Double V" (victory over the Axis powers abroad and victory over racism and Jim Crow segregation at home). |