Question 1

Which of the following statements about the African American experience in the Second World War is supported by the evidence in this photograph?

	Answer
	Over one million African Americans served in the United States military during World War II.
	The Second World War was the first time African American soldiers engaged in combat missions for the US.
	The modern civil rights movement emerged from the African American experience during the Second World War.
	The US Armed Forces were segregated in 1942. The absence of non-Black women in this image suggests that theirs is a segregated battalion. Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981 ended military segregation in 1948.