Two Black American soldiers served in WWII were shot dead by a white colleague as chatting with white female, newly discovered military records reveal
In a segregated army, many white American soldiers did not want black men conversing with white women. And the two white soldiers involved in the murders were acquitted in a court-martial and absolved of their actions.
Frank Glenn’s death was, however, ruled in the line of duty, archived documents show, and his widow was awarded a “gratuity”., ‘The Good War’, based on an interview by freelance journalist Alfred Duckett. “There was an almost psychotic terror on the part of white commanders that there would be a great deal of association with the white women,” Duckett reported. One white army chaplain, he continued, warned Europeans that Black soldiers had tails.
Duckett died without clearing Leftridge’s name, and decades before, talk of reparations revived. “We’ve come a long way,” he said. “But racism is just as alive today, maybe even more virulent.”
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