The Treatment of African American Citizens in 1950

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Chris Peach

African American Citizens in 1950

 I do agree strongly that African Americans were still treated as second class citizens in 1950 although a lot had changed and was changing. After the second world war, black people became more respected because they started to realise that black people were just as good, and no different as any other people, the people who they fought with realised this almost instantly, a white man said ‘They’re just like any of the other boys to us. Other soldiers did not only believe that they were equal to them, they respected them and trusted their life on them just as you would do with any other person in the war.

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 When the black soldiers went abroad to Europe to help win the war they soon realised that segregation and racism was not present in the same way as it was in America, people were not as bothered whether you were black or white, the black service men even had nights out with the women and they got treated as heroes, this boosted their confidence and self-esteem. This was only a small step though it did nothing to change the situation in America and the white commanders refused to let the black men go out and mingle with the local citizens, ...

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