Evers was just 19 when he joined up with the Red Ball Express, a group of blacktruck drivers who transported supplies all across Europe after D-Day. They were really essential to the war effort.
Evers World War II military service helped spark a political awakening.
When he returned to the U.S., he led black veterans to register to vote in Decatur, Mississippi, on 1946. White townspeople with guns turned them away.
His experience really dramatically highlights that double victory campaign, according to Delmont. This was the way that black Americans are both fighting to win the war militarily, fighting agaisnt fascism, but alsotrying to fight against racism at home."
He was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963.
--GreGen
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