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    Needs of Two Wars Hasten Integration in the Military

    Dec 04, 2018 2 minutes
    —Warren Wilkins

    Brotherhood in Combat: How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam

    By Jeremy P. Maxwell University of Oklahoma Press, 2018

    African-American activist and legendary orator Frederick Douglass, speaking at the National Hall in Philadelphia on July 6, 1863, implored blacks to view military service as a means of advancing the struggle for equal rights. From then on, black soldiers, sailors and Marines served

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