![]() ![]() ![]() There are editorials and articles already in the early and mid-1930s that call it explicitly, the ways in which Hitler and the Nazis are drawing on American racial policies to justify their treatment of Jews in Europe. Black Americans are among the first to recognize the really dire threat that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis pose, not just to Europe, not just to Jews, and really to the world. If you look at a Black newspaper from 1933, 1934, 1935, you’d see extensive coverage of what’s going on in Europe. ![]() Matthew Delmont: “One of the things that’s different when you look at the war from the African American perspective is that the war really starts before Pearl Harbor. What did Black Americans think about the burgeoning war, before America got involved? And it’s why I was excited to have a chance to write the book.” When you actually take a step back and understand what the more than a million Black Americans who participated in the war effort, what they did and how vital they were to the war effort. It made me wonder, what does the war look like from the African American perspective? Once I paused and kind of really got into the research, I was amazed at how much material was there. This is about six or seven years ago, when I started working on this project. “And it really made me pause and take a step. ![]()
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