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African-Americans Troops Training

Clip: Episode 3 | 4m 10sVideo has Closed Captions

The armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.

Despite the bravery of African Americans in all of America’s previous wars, despite the argument made by the NAACP and others that “a Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world,” the armed forces of the United States remained strictly segregated.

09/22/2007 | Rating NR

FromKen Burns

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