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During the second World war America was still very racist towards Black people. However they deployed both Black and White men to fight alongside each other in the war. Did This cause White soldiers to be less racist/change their view? I imagine a shared horrible experience like war could do that.

by /u/KRiszification in /r/AskHistorians

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