African-Americans Troops Training

Name: African-Americans Troops Training
Uploaded: 2013-06-06T13:50:52Z
Duration: P250S
Description: Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.

Clip: Season 1 | 4m 10s | Video has closed captioning.

Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.

Aired: 09/22/07

Rating: NR

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