Dubois Returning Soldiers

W.E.B Dubois thought that African Americans being in the military service would help them eventually claim equal citizenship. He was trying to help African Americans have equal lives when they come home from the wars. In the story “Returning Soldiers”, W.E.B Dubois explained that the soldiers were returning home, to still be treated unequally after the war. The soldiers were African American’s that had been drafted. The soldiers were put in the war to defend France from Germany. When the African American’s soldiers went back to their countries, they were still being treated unequally. In the story Du Bois says, “Yet for fifty years we have lynched two Negroes a week”. He used that technique to explain that this could even happen to African American soldiers. Dubois says many words such as lynches, disfranchises, ignorance, steals and insults to give us an image of what was going on in the country at the time. He is using the words to talk about America. The word “it “, was used to show that
He was also credited for the NAACP. After many cases, Charles focused on the treatment of African American men and women in the military. He stated that African Americans soldiers were still being treated unequally year’s later, when entering World War II. African Americans soldiers didn’t have as many civilian rights as prisoners of wars. While being in army camp, the soldiers were to only use a segregated fountain. They were put in uniforms, to be shipped near south where they would probably get murdered. Charles Houston explains even though African Americans were helping to defend the whites, the whites would still treat them differently. While being in the camps, the whites would say how they are going put the Africans Americans in his place as soon as they get home. The Good Neighbor Policy was the foreign policy, which included the countries Asia, Africa and India, that they would have good relations