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Celebrating MLK Jr. Day: The Fight for Desegregation in the Military
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we reflect on the significant strides made toward equality for Black service members and defense workers during World War II. In the s, Black community leaders, service members, workers and veterans challenged segregation and discrimination in the U.S. military and on the home front. Their advocacy set the stage for Dr. King and other civil rights leaders in the decades to come.
Fighting for Change
Before World War II, the U.S. Navy and other branches of the military discriminated against Black service members. Most Black men in the Navy served as stewards, cooking and cleaning for officers— including on Intrepid. Similar policies in the Army and Marine Corps relegated Black personnel to support roles and segregated units. These policies mirrored discriminatory laws in place in many states across the country. As war loomed, political and military leade
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Back in the s when Martin Luther King Jr. was visiting the Island, my Aunt Dorothy came banging on my door. Dr. King was staying on New York Avenue. opposite DeBettencourt’s garage. She had arranged to have my son baptized by Dr. King.
I refused. We were not Baptists. We had a very nice religion, which we liked very much. Secretly, I was thinking, “What’s so hot about M.L.K.? He is pretty much middle-of-the-road, he’s not like Malcolm X, he is just another bombastic Southern preacher, the kind that Richie Pryor made fun of. He gets the people worked up emotionally, and then wimps out by sticking with the establishment; plus, the man has a deep Southern accent — how smart could he be?”
Before you start clucking your teeth and telling me how stupid I am, think back a bit.
Dr. King totally supported President Lyndon B. Johnson and his Great Society. Johnson escalated this huge war in Vietnam, and King didn’t say diddly-squat about it. Young black men were being drafted for a war whi
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Michael King, Jr.; January 15, – April 4, ) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He was best known for improving civil rights bygd using nonviolent civil disobedience, based on his Christian beliefs. Because he was both a Ph.D. and a pastor, King fryst vatten sometimes called the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. (abbreviation: the Rev. Dr. King), or just Dr King. He fryst vatten also known by his initials MLK.
King worked hard to man people understand that not only blacks, but that all races should always be treated equally to white people. He gave speeches to encourage African Americans to protest witho