The GI Bill’s Effect on Black Veterans
From the start, Black veterans had trouble securing the GI Bill’s benefits. Some could not access benefits because they had not been given…
How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans
When Eugene Burnett saw the neat tract houses of Levittown, New York, he knew he wanted to buy one. It was 1949, and he was ready to settle down in a larger home with…
WWII forces got their mail
An army unit known as the “Six Triple Eight” had a specific mission in World War II: to sort and clear a two-year backlog of mail for Americans stationed…
The Tragic, forgotten history of black military soldiers
In the week after the election, the Equal Justice Initiative, of Montgomery, Alabama, released a new report—a fifty-three-page addendum to last year’s “Lynching in America,” an unprecedentedly…
MEMORIAL DAY
Memorial Day is an American holiday, observed on the last Monday of May, honoring the men and women who died…
