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Another USgov source is Prologue, the magazine of the National Archives. Their Spring 2008 issue had a piece on Jackie Robinson

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson's Army court-martial during World War II provided a preview of the civil rights movement that would shake postwar America.

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National Archives · Jim Crow, Meet Lieutenant RobinsonA 1944 Court-Martial Spring 2008, Vol. 40, No. 1 By John Vernon If the United States does not win this war, the lot of the Negro is going to be far, far worse than it is today. Yet there is . . . an alarmingly large percentage of Negroes in and out of the Army who do not seem to be vitally concerned about winning the war. —Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, Washington, DC, 1942 We are treated like wild animals . . . like we are inhuman. . . . The word Negro is never used here, all they call us are n—r do this, n—r that. Even the officers here are calling us n—r.
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