The American history that republicans prefer not be taught.
"Truman said, “When a Mayor and City Marshal can take a… Sergeant off a bus in South Carolina, beat him up and put out… his eyes, and nothing is done about it by the State authorities, something is radically wrong with the system.”
February 12, 2023 https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-12-2023
@Queasy Happened routinely during WWII, including against white NCOs of African American regiments. Army never stepped in, quite the contrary.
Racial epithets and threats of violence were part of daily life on Southern military bases, and off base, African Americans were restricted to the "Black" sections of town.
"If they stepped even a foot outside of that, they were threatened or attacked by white police or sheriffs," Delmont says.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134756262/half-american-matthew-delmont-black-wwii