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A 14 page (13 pp. + 1 pg. outline) paper which examines how serving in the U.S. armed forces during World War II in World War II influenced black Mississippians to become prominent members of the civil rights movement, specifically considering Medgar and Charles Evers and Amzie Moore. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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run free. / I reckon you dont care / Nothing about me. / You tell me that Hitler / Is a mighty bad man. / I guess he took lessons
/ From the ku klux klan. / You tell me mussolinis / Got an evil heart. / Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont / That he had his start- /
Cause everything that Hitler / And mussolini do / Negroes get the same / Treatment from you / You jim crowed me / Before hitler rose to power- / And
youre still jim crowing me Right now, this very hour. / Yet you say were fighting / For democracy. / Then why dont democracy / Include me? / I ask
you this question Cause I want to know / How long I got to fight / BOTH HITLER-AND JIM CROW - Langston Hughes (Edgerton, 2001, 132-133). It was December
of 1941, and the United States, like most of America, was embroiled in a world war. But for many years there had been a war raging on the home
front that many Americans remained blissfully unaware of, even in Mississippi, the state with the largest black population. Even though slavery had been technically ended when the South lost
the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept of racial equality. Blacks were still being denied important rights that Caucasians often took for granted, which
included defending their country. Those who tried to enlist prior to the Selective Service Act of 1940 were either rejected or subjected to appalling and disrespectful treatment. To
underscore the racial prejudice in place in Mississippi, Senator James K. Vardaman (D-MS) opposed the conscription of blacks across the United States because, "Millions of Negroes who will come under
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