Many black squaddies serving within the U.S. military in the course of global battle II was hoping that they may make everlasting profits because of their army carrier and their willingness to protect their nation. They have been quickly disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a robust selection of letters written through black infantrymen within the Nineteen Forties to varied executive and nongovernment officers. the warriors expressed their disillusionment, rage, and ache over the discrimination and segregation they skilled within the military. such a lot black troops have been denied access into military expert colleges; black officials weren't allowed to command white officials; black squaddies have been served poorer foodstuff and have been pressured to journey Jim Crow army buses into city and to sit down in Jim Crow base motion picture theaters. within the South, German POWs may possibly use an analogous latrines as white American infantrymen, yet blacks couldn't. the unique foreword through Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of background at Morgan country college, and a brand new foreword via Bernard C. Nalty, the executive historian within the place of work of Air strength background, provide wealthy insights into the realm of those squaddies.
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Guenther of the War Department's general staff prepared a memo for General White. Guenther suggested to White that Gibson "be advised that, while the War Department's policy governing recreational facilities provides that such facilities are for the benefit of all personnel regardless of race, it does not prohibit a post commander from allocating recreational facilities on an 'area' for 'unit' basis if in his judgement such allocations will better serve the needs of his particular command. "11 Blacks stationed at Camp Gordon Johnston, Florida, demonstrated another way Uncle Sam's black boys were treated.
The can was a lubricating oil can and coffee and oil don't look so good. Why it was so full of oil we raised cain and made them take it back. This also happened. There were sailors and soldiers on that same movement ... white of course. They got off and walked around and ate like human beings while they penned us in between two freight cars so no none could see us, kept us cooped up like animals. I am not alone in this but three hundred of us and we all feel the same. If this is Uncle Sam's Army, then treat us like soldiers not animals or else Uncle Sam might find a new axis to fight.
As a result of these practices the esprit de corps of black soldiers remained low throughout the war. But their burdens became easier to' bear because of men like Hastie, other black leaders, and the nongovernmen- XXXVIII Introduction tal forces who were their spokesmen within and outside of the government. These men, women, national organizations, and the black press represented to black soldiers a bond of brotherhood to which they appealed for help and relief from the agonies of racism. The soldiers' letters presented in this volume were sent to black and white national leaders, to the civilian aides to the secretaries of the war, to the black national self-help organizations, and to the black press.