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A 4 page paper which examines how the experience of Mississippi blacks serving in the military during World War II affected their attitudes regarding racism and segregation and made them more determined than ever to challenge Jim Crow laws. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGblackmiss.rtf
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In his article entitled "Socializing Neo-Slavery," Professor Adolph Reed Jr. (1996) observed, "Mississippi holds a special infamy in the lore of American racial politics. Initiator of the Black Codes
that sought to return the freedpeople as nearly as possible to slavery, it was on the most savage edge of the white supremacist Redemption after Reconstruction" (p. 44). After
the Civil War, the ex-Confederate states passed a series of controversial laws known as the notorious black codes that stated in essence that while African Americans may be free in
the technical sense, they were not equal in the eyes of Southern law (Levy, 1998). This was never more true than in the state of Mississippi, which though politically
democratic, was nothing remotely resembling a democracy. The states large black population had been relegated to the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder, working mostly as sharecroppers and living
in shacks. But in Mississippi domestic issues took a back seat in December of 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
and the United States entered World War II. Thousands of Mississippians, many black, joined the military (Farrell, 2000). Unfortunately, though, despite their shared desire to risk their lives
to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come tumbling down. Initially, they were excluded from entering the Marines and the Army Air
Corps and in the Navy they were reduced to KP or kitchen patrol duty only. Although the Army accepted the greatest number of blacks in their military units, they
were forced to serve in segregated units that were overseen by white officers. Back home, World War II provided a significant boost to the sagging Mississippi economy with the
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