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In those days it was Jim Crow

 
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Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. At that time, the U.S. was assisting France and England and also fighting Germany.

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In those days it was Jim Crow — no blacks in the Air Force. But the black (news)papers got onto the government and demanded that they put blacks in the Air Force.

At that time, I was attending Langston University. They were short of help in manufacturing factories, so all who had a trade in school but were not of age were sent to work in factories until they were called into service. Twenty-nine whites and one black, which was me, were sent to Hartford, Conn.

Within a week, we got hired to work in a steel plant in Plainville, Conn. In two months, I was called to report for induction in the Army. I came back to Hugo ... and had my physical exam in Tulsa.

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