[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fBv-1lgM9Y[/embedyt] Black troops have fought in every major U.S. war since the American Revolution, coping with disparities in training, equipment, and opportunity through World War II. Following the Allied victory in WWII, black civil rights leaders, led by A. Philip Randolph, pressured President Harry S. Truman to abolish racial discrimination within the military by […]
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