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Article: Casualties of war? (African American soldiers who served in the UK during World War II were subject to racial segregation and laws against marrying white women)(United States - Racism)(Brief Article)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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About 130,000 black Americans served in Britain during the Second World War, but the United States of America Visiting Forces Act, introduced in August of 1942, stipulated that they were subject to the racial segregation of their native country. As a ...
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