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For a brief period, Oliver Law commanded the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War which he wouldn't have been able to do in the US Army at the time on account of race, are there sources/reports of how whites in the US took to the news of a Black man commanding white troops in Spain?

by /u/KevTravels in /r/AskHistorians

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