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SUMMARY:Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII exhibit opens
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, May 9\, the exhibit Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in WWII opens at the Cherokee Strip and Regional Heritage Center. \nIn the years leading up to World War II\, racial segregation and discrimination were part of daily life for many in the United States. For most African Americans\, even the most basic rights and services were fragmented or denied altogether. To be Black was to know the limits of freedom—excluded from the very opportunity\, equality\, and justice on which the country was founded. \nYet\, once World War II 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. This is their story. \nFighting for the Right to Fight contains oral histories\, profile panels\, and artifacts\, visitors discover the wartime stories of individual service members who took part in this extraordinary challenge\, from unheralded heroes to famous names—including Alex Haley\, author of Roots (US Coast Guard); Benjamin Davis\, Jr. (US Army Air Forces); Medgar Evers (US Army); and more. \nThe centerpiece of the exhibit is an original eight-minute video about the Tuskegee Airmen\, who in many ways became the focus of African American participation during the war. The piece is narrated by TV personality Robin Roberts\, whose own father flew with the Tuskegee Airmen during the war. \nNational touring exhibit presented by National Touring Sponsor Abbot Downing\, Wells Fargo. \n \n
URL:https://www.okhistory.org/calendar/event/fighting-for-the-right-to-fight-exhibit-opens/
LOCATION:Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center\, 507 South 4th Street\, Enid\, OK\, 73701\, United States
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