Timuel Black came of age in Chicago's Black Belt during the 1930s, and in 1943 was inducted into the U.S. Army. He received training in the segregated South, then was shipped with his unit to England; his Quartermaster unit landed at Normandy within days of the D-Day landings. He fought across France and in the Battle of the Bulge before witnessing the horrors of Buchenwald first hand. It was there he dedicated himself to working on civil rights issues.
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Atomic Bomb
Abstract
Interview Session 01 (Audio)
Early life through Army Basic Training in 1943-44
Interview Session 02 (Audio)
Service in England, France and Germany during WW II
Transcript
Related Materials
Veterans Day 2011 editorial
Veterans Day 2011 editorial by Mark DePue regarding Timuel Black.
See also
Timuel Black's discussion of his wartime service in the Veterans Remember - World War II collection.
See also Timuel Black's discussion of his wartime service in the Veterans Remember - World War II collection.