#WWII

XVIII Airborne Corps

18airbornecorps

It was perhaps the most important civil right achievement in US history. On #TDIDCH: July 26 1948, POTUS Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ending discrimination in the military. 1

Andrew Wortman 🏳️‍🌈

AmoneyResists

1973: Richard Nixon’s department of justice sues the Trump business for refusing to rent to black individuals1980s: Trump refuses to hire black people in his casinos1989: Trump takes out full

Sophia Smith Galer

sophiasgaler

This week, British Italians will remember the 80th anniversary of the tragedy of the Arandora Star. Hundreds of civilians interned as prisoners of war - including my great-grandfather - drowned

Frank

FrankBullit67

The problems that India faces from China and Pakistan are largely the result of the "branding" of Indians as weak, conflict avoiding p***ies. That image was created by Gandhi and

##MAX

D4RKREUNION

WHY USING JAPANESE NAMES (ONLINE) IS HARMFUL TO OUR CULTURE ☆ i am not up for debate. this is my two cents as a japanese person 1. you’re using our

make:good

wemakegood

Storytelling is a big part of what we do at make:good; we love getting to know the fabric of a place and what matters to people through their stories. To

Jesse Jae Hoon 🌹

jessejaehoon

In my public school World History class, we spent a week on the Mayflower and never got to the Holocaust – most of the WWII education we got was about

Stoney Portis

StoneyPortis

Soldier Suicide in Seven War Novels1. Civil War: "Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane"He now thought that he wished he was dead. He believed that he envied those men

Paul Poast

ProfPaulPoast

Another autumn Saturday, another thanks to Tommy Tuberville.This edition: why ACTUALLY invaded during WWII.[THREAD]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/tommy-tuberville-apparently-doesnt-know-what-wwii-was-about.html?utm_campaign=nym&

Alessandra

alessabocchi

Daily reminder that Nazis weren’t “white supremacists” but German and Nordic supremacists specifically. They largely considered Slavs, who today would classify as “white”, as equal to Jews in terms of

Alex Wellerstein

wellerstein

When we talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we tend to focus on August 6 and August 9th. But August 8th, 1945, is one of the most important dates for understanding

Cassie Oakman

CassieOakman

Thread:- My husband’s parents were refugees in WWII. Their parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, friends, and neighbours almost all died in concentration camps, or on their way to the camps. They

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

No. No, no, no, no, no. This is precisely the perverse path that elevates only Hiroshima and nothing else about the tens of millions of deaths that Imperial Japan caused.https://twitter.com/BostonReview/status/1291426437183016966

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CarolinaOuest

A thread about wondering if “it’s time” for justice.Many of us express frustration that arrests haven’t been made yet. The WWII experience of a friend gives me perspective that I’d

Russell Todd

llannerch

Just discovered that Gerwyn Price is from Markham, one of my old #CommunitiesFirst patches. Apparently used to compete for the Miners' Welfare there, a building I knew well (top quality

Stop Sea Blasts

StopSeaBlasts

How the clearance of unexploded ordnance is damaging marine life: a thread#StopSeaBlasts http://change.org/stopseablasts Over 100,000 tonnes of unexploded ordnance lie in waters around the UK, left over from the First

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