Watch Live Program: Fighting on Two Fronts: Black Americans Who Served
Racial discrimination and lynchings in America did not
discourage Corporal James Baldwin from serving his country. As part of the
784th Tank Battalion, he helped free the Dutch from German occupation.
Sergeant Leon Bass and his unit proudly bore witness to the Nazi atrocities
in the Buchenwald concentration camp after it was liberated, even though
they were treated as second-class citizens in the segregated US Army.
The “Double-V” campaign encouraged Black Americans to join the war effort
by advocating victory against fascism abroad and against racism at home.
Request a reminder to join us during Black History Month
to honor Black Americans who served.
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Speakers
DeNeen L. Brown,
Award-Winning Journalist, the Washington
Post, and Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of
Journalism, University of Maryland
Lynn Williams,
Educational Program Consultant, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Moderator
Dr. Edna Friedberg,
Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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conversation.
You do not need a Facebook account to view our program. After the live
broadcast, it will be available to watch on demand on the Museum’s Facebook page.
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Photo: A Black soldier with the 12th Armored Division, Seventh
US Army, stands guard over a group of German soldiers captured in the
forest in April 1945. National
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