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The War
The 1943 Mobile Shipyard Riot
On May 25, 1943, after Alabama Dry Dock agreed under federal pressure to let 12 Black workers become welders, white employees attacked Black colleagues across the shipyard. Many escaped by jumping off the piers into the river. The compromise that followed segregated the yard itself, a result the Pittsburgh Courier denounced as a victory for Nazi racial theory.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
