“Decades have gone by and there hadn’t been a measure of basic fairness, of basic justice that was brought to bear,”… “We owe him this commission.”
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On the cusp of 112, a whirlwind tour for World War II’s oldest veteran | The Washington Post
Richard Overton, the grandson of a slave, worked in a furniture store and as a courier for decades until he finally retired when he was 85. That was more than 25 years ago.
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These photos of the Tuskegee Airmen show cool dedication in the face of wartime segregation | Timeline
Photographer Toni Frissell captured these men with a mission
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The police beating that opened America’s eyes to Jim Crow’s brutality | The Conversation
On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honorably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife.
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