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How a Soldier’s Beating Helped Desegregate the Military

Mother Jones · 23 minutes ago

In 1946, a Black Army veteran was returning from World War II when a white police officer pulled him off a Greyhound bus and beat him blind. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. The details were fuzzy. No one was sure about the identity of the police…

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