Fighting Racism in World War II
A week-by-week account from 1939 to 1945 of efforts to advance the Black rights struggle in face of patriotic appeals to postpone resistance to lynch-mob terror and racist discrimination until after US “victory” in World War II.
These struggles—of a piece with rising anti-imperialist battles in Africa, Asia, and the Americas—helped lay the basis for the mass civil rights movement in the postwar decades.
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“These articles…tell a little-known story, in which the roots of the explosive civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s can be found.”
