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.