I just saw a headline in a WW2-era Southern
newspaper that caught my attention. It was carried in the November 16, 1945
edition of the San Antonio Register,
and said:
Mob
Threatens White Officer for Blocking J. Crow
Major Insists All GIs Be Fed Together in Mississippi Cafe
To me, the account that followed
illustrates the utter irrationality of racial prejudice...
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Photo credit: Ben Shahn, FSA/OWI via loc.gov (public domain)
Interestingly this 1938 photo was not taken in the segregated South, but in Lancaster, Ohio
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