Remembering The 13 Gallant Black Men Who Ended The Segregation Of Blacks By U.S Navy In 1944 (The Golden 13)
Sixteen Black men arrived for officer training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois in January 1944. It was the culmination of a four-year campaign by civil rights leaders, ordinary citizens, and the black press, who had called on the Navy to change its segregated practices during World War II. When the war … Read more