My impression from e.g. interviews at the time is that black and native americans felt, if anything, a lot more strongly "american" at that time than now, and f

My impression from e.g. interviews at the time is that black and native americans felt, if anything, a lot more strongly "american" at that time than now, and fought as valiantly as anyone. Ironically despite the huge amount of objective progress against racism, culturally the country feels more divided now than ever before.