“Achive Watch: Civil Rights Over There”

A look at The Civil Rights Struggle, African-American GIs, and Germany,” an online archive devoted to the experiences of black GIs in Germany after World War II:The domestic history of the American civil-rights movement is well known to scholars. Less familiar is the movement’s international side, especially as it played out in Germany, where African-American GI’s stationed after World War II helped spread its ideas. The transatlantic influence worked in the other direction, too, as those soldiers brought their experience in fighting for democracy home to the United States.“