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explicit and overt historical racism in the first world war 

@melissasage further; Pershing himself unleashed this torrent of foul racism about his own 369th before he lent them to French Army. Came up in the background to Henry Johnson’s Medal of Honor.

I could swear there were more Americans than Eugene Bullard who flew for France specifically because the USA didn’t want Black pilots, but I can’t easily find anything.

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