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Memoirs of a World War II veteran and publishing industry professional (and founder of Worthy Shorts). A story of the colorful urban ethnic street and campus life of the depression and war-time era in New York City, and of a multicultural experience of military and college life that began the rapid dismantling of the invisible discriminatory barriers.
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Back to College after the War - Eugene G. Schwartz
Back to College After the War
The Brotherhood of Man
By Eugene G. Schwartz
Smashwords Edition
Copyright © 2009 Eugene G. Schwartz
Published by Worthy Shorts
The Online Private Press for Professionals
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Design and organizing elements copyright © 2009 by Worthy Shorts.
Sale of this work in this imprint or design, except by Worthy Shorts or its agents, is prohibited.
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For more information, visit www.worthyshorts.com
This memoir first appeared in American Students Organize: Founding the National Student Association after World War II (American Council on Education/Praeger, 2006).
Copyright NSA Anthology Charitable Trust.
Dedication
To my fellow students of the World War II generation, and to Harry, Marty, David, Lugy and my other boyhood stalwarts of the Haldane Scientific Society,and to Sidney, who didn't return.
Preface
In many ways this is several stories merged into one: it is a story of the colorful urban ethnic street and campus life in New York City; of the depression and war-time era of thirties and forties; and of a transformative multicultural experience of military and college life in the nineteen-forties and fifties -- one that began the rapid dismantling of the invisible discriminatory barriers to opportunity that had heretofore characterized American democracy.
In April, 1946, I returned home after two years and four months of service in the U.S. Army during World War II, most of it state-side in the Field Artillery, with six months in the Philippines assembling for the invasion of Japan
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