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Isaac Woodard Jr. (March 18, 1919 – September 23, 1992) was an American soldier and victim of racial violence.An African-American World War II veteran, on February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army, he was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home.
Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph which shows a strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers. Photographer Milton Brooks captured the image and it won the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942.
Image credits: historycoolkids #3. Ronald (left) and Carl McNair (right) were born 10 months apart in the Segregated South. The two were inseparable as toddlers and well into adulthood.
The battle started when white American military police (MPs) attempted to arrest several African American soldiers from the racially segregated 1511th Quartermaster Truck Regiment for being out of uniform, a violation of the US Army Code of Conduct, in the Ye Olde Hob Inn public house in Bamber Bridge.
During the fight at the jail, rioting had broken out in Athens, mainly targeting police cars. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This continued after the ballot boxes were recovered, but subsided by morning. [ 9 ] The mob also destroyed automobiles of the deputies, many bearing out-of-state plates. [ 11 ]
A Milwaukee native, Pekrul signed up for the U.S. Army at Boys Tech High School (now Bradley Tech), according to an interview with the War Memorial Center that he gave as part of the Wisconsin ...
CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Together, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. The location was the elegant stone-worked town hall of Carentan, a key initial D-Day ...
Simeon Oxendine, a World War II veteran and the son of Pembroke's mayor, and Charlie Warriax, stole the KKK banner. [46] Later that night Lumbees celebrated in Pembroke, driving in a motorcade and marching through the streets [18] before gathering in front of the police station in Pembroke to hang and burn an effigy of Cole. [51]