Will always beggar belief that a cornerstone of the US Army's deployment to Britain between 1942 and 1944 "How much Jim Crow can we impose on these people before they finally tell us to stop"

The answer is "more than the French put up with in 1918"

You're trying to organise the largest amphibious invasion in human history and yet you're willing to take a sidebar to ensure that the Guys Who Like Lynching don't get too upset about the fact The Guys They Like to Lynch are also taking part in said invasion

Nothing like the phrase "British civilians needed to be educated out of their hospitableness towards black Americans" to make you want to reach into the past and punch a nameless US army officer

Shout-out to Denis Argent and the Sappers for seeing right through segregationist orders

I feel a lot of sympathy for the civil service having to deal with the Americans demanding *twice* the amount of military infrastructure just so they can segregate it

Trying to find a free hospital for us by the US army only to discover it's unsuitable because it doesn't have space for a segregated ward etc

Killer paragraph here from Smith. The Jim Crow rot runs deep

Yeah, that'll stop'em

SUPERMAC STRIKES AGAIN

Broke the thread but the concept that introducing sundown towns to Norfolk was somehow the smart choice is insane

Anyway, this thread feels like it's about to roll over into the 'doing numbers' zone, so I'm just going to say that race relations and civil rights is not a points-based competition, and if it was everyone would be disqualified for bad behaviour. Grow Up.