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Posted On: 05/25/2020 7:58:00 AM
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The Forgotten Story of How 13 Black Men Broke the Navy’s Toughest Color Barrier
Sam Barnes racked his brain one chilly morning in January 1944, wondering what he might have done wrong. Barnes, a popular African American petty officer working at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois, had been in the Navy for 15 months and had never been disciplined. Why, he wondered, was he being ordered to the white side of the segregated station, a command usually reserved for sailors who were in trouble?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/0...ier-271084
The Forgotten Story of How 13 Black Men Broke the Navy’s Toughest Color Barrier
Sam Barnes racked his brain one chilly morning in January 1944, wondering what he might have done wrong. Barnes, a popular African American petty officer working at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois, had been in the Navy for 15 months and had never been disciplined. Why, he wondered, was he being ordered to the white side of the segregated station, a command usually reserved for sailors who were in trouble?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/0...ier-271084
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