This picture illustrates blacks and their hardship to get into the war. Dr. Suess shows a maze with an entrance for the black and unemployed with the enlisting site in the center, UC San Diego Library on June 26, 1942. African American men tried to enter the second world war, while they had their own problems with racism and freedom against discrimination. They sought to escape their usual ways of poverty and struggles of everyday life.
Richard Dalfiume wrote in his 1968 book about the writings of James Baldwin "The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro's relation to America. To put it briefly, and somewhat too simply, a certain hope died, a certain respect for white Americans
Richard Dalfiume wrote in his 1968 book about the writings of James Baldwin "The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro's relation to America. To put it briefly, and somewhat too simply, a certain hope died, a certain respect for white Americans