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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: the race riot in 1943
- aaron695 5y agoSimilar incidents in Australia, this article doesn't go into how it was based on local rules vs US army rules but it was known to be a big issue - "African American troops used machine guns to attack their white officers in a siege on a US base in north Queensland in 1942." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-10/historian-reveals-details-on-townsville-mutiny/3821906 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-10/historian-reveals-det...
- rmason 5y agoTried to find the story of a group of black WW2 veterans who integrated first their town and later their county. They were willing to fight to end Jim Crow. Instead of that I found another piece that pretty clearly stated the warm welcome that black troops found in England and France made them resolved to defeat Jim Crow. https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_ww2.html https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_ww2.htm...
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoI've read similar stories from American musicians touring Europe in the post war era.