I just saw a headline in a WW2-era Southern newspaper that caught my attention. It was carried in the November 16, 1945 edition of the San Antonio Register, and said: Mob Threatens White Officer for Blocking J. Crow Major Insists All GIs Be Fed Together in Mississippi Cafe To me, the account that followed illustrates the utter irrationality of racial… Read more →
Roger C. Terry (1921-2009) was a U. S. Army Air Forces officer in World War II. In his short military career, Terry compiled a record most people would classify as miserable: he was court-martialed for shoving a superior officer, convicted, fined, reduced in rank, and kicked out of the service with a dishonorable discharge. But Roger Terry was proud of… Read more →