Building Bridges Martin Lodge Even if you're an avid

Even if you're an avid history buff

or did not find

Drawing on personal interviews and extensive archival research

Other essays look at events in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Building Bridges Martin Lodge Even if you're an avidThe previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integration in the US armed forces. More than 80 percent of Black GIs in World War II served behind the front lines. At the beginning of the war, segregation policies maintained physical separation of Black and white GIs and only allowed Black soldiers to do simple, menial work, maintaining a false sense of racial inferiority. But the mechanization of