A racially segregated audience watching black musician Paul Robeson perform at the Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois, in 1943. [1280 x 1007]

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GhostOfLyrestar

This is just so hard for me to get my head wrapped around.
joejames94

Absolutely the land of the free, pfft. Not!
AdmiralAkbar1

I know Illinois didn’t have segregation (at least formally—redlining was definitely still alive and well in Chicagoland), so was segregation the norm for all federal military bases at the time?
KatsumotoKurier

This just looks so bizarre and dystopian. Crazy to think this was the expected normal.

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