African Americans were affected by the end of WWII because they joined WW II . Drawing the connection between fascism abroad and hate at home pre-civil rights activist declare the necessary of double victory. And once the activist declared double victory it was harsh on African-Americans because they did not have all the necessities they needed.
The “tan soldiers,” as the black press affectionately called them, were also for the most part left out of the triumphant narrative of America’s “Greatest Generation.” In order to tell their story of helping defeat Nazi Germany in my 2010 book, “Breath of Freedom,” I had to conduct research in more than 40 different archives in the U.S. and Germany.
When a German TV production company, together with Smithsonian TV, turned that book into a documentary, the filmmakers searched U.S. media and military archives for two years for footage of black GIs in the final push into Germany and during the occupation of post-war Germany.
They watched hundreds of hours of film and discovered less than 10 minutes of footage. This despite the fact that among the 16 million U.S. soldiers who fought in World War II, there were about one million African-American soldiers.
Yes, it was. At the time, it bring great prosperity to the country If you want <span>to compare to the modern days, it was like the first landing in the moon.</span>
