Visit the Irving Archives & Museum to see this traveling exhibition that comes from the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. "Fighting for the Right to Fight" begins with an overview of America in the 1920s when segregation and discrimination were part of daily life for African Americans.
THROUGH APRIL 14 | FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO FIGHT: AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCES IN WWII
Irving Archives & Museum | 801 W. Irving Blvd.
In the years leading up to World War II, African Americans experienced regular discrimination. To be Black was to know the limits of freedom in America. Yet, once WWII began, thousands of African Americans rushed to enlist, intent on serving the nation that treated them as second-class citizens. They were determined to fight to preserve the freedom that they themselves had been denied. “Fighting for the Right to Fight” is their story.