This piece is adapted from Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Out October 18 from Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, all rights reserved). It also included “innumerable loopholes for states to ‘rob’ returning Negro veterans of the rights and privileges they have earned by risking their lives and limbs for the preservation (?) of democracy,” McAlpin wrote. The GI Bill included funding for housing, college, and job training, along with business loans and unemployment insurance, which fueled social mobility for millions of veterans and their descendants. the GI Bill of Rights), Harry McAlpin, Washington correspondent for the National Negro Publishers Association, warned that the new law, though race-neutral on its face, would exclude Black veterans. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (a.k.a. In August 1944, just two months after President Franklin D. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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