Black residents of Nashville have advice for FDR
A few weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Nashville newspaper reporter recorded a series of ‘man-on-the-street’ interviews with Black residents who were told to address their comments directly to President Franklin Roosevelt.
At the time, military service was segregated and o…
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