102-year-old Ira Ike Schab says of the 81st Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: I wouldn’t have missed it. You could have gotten me here in a hospital bed.
Though more than a million Black Americans contributed to the war effort, historian Matthew Delmont says a uniform was no protection from racism at home or abroad. His new book is Half American.
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Though more than one million Black Americans contributed to the war effort, historian Matthew Delmont says a military uniform offered no protection from racism.