The Neglected Story of African Americans on #DDay
"Official histories of #DDay have long excluded the contributions made by African Americans. Literature professor Alice Mills waded into the past to uncover these forgotten World War II heroes.'"
#BlackLivesMatter
"Official histories of #DDay have long excluded the contributions made by African Americans. Literature professor Alice Mills waded into the past to uncover these forgotten World War II heroes.'"
#BlackLivesMatter
“Some marines had already landed before us and the beach was just about covered with dead bodies."
--- William Garfield Dabney
--- William Garfield Dabney
"A resident of Roanoke, Virginia, who served in World War II. He was awarded the Legion of Honor for his actions during the invasion of Normandy."
#RIPWilliamGarfieldDabney
#RIPWilliamGarfieldDabney
"Mills was struck by the fact that not one poster included an African American soldier. “They had been erased from memory. I wondered, why this complete absence? It didn’t seem fair,” she told FRANCE 24."
Fighting White Supremacy At Home and Abroad!
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-day
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-day
Come Out Fighting: The 761st -
The Black #WWII Battalion That Liberated Hitler’s Camps (Fern Levitt). #DDay
The Black #WWII Battalion That Liberated Hitler’s Camps (Fern Levitt). #DDay
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