The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs and Germany

America in Black and White: Lancaster Veterans and the Struggle for Racial Equality from Franklin & Marshall College on Vimeo.

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Here is one of our most recent interviews with Milton and Charlotte Johnson, aka Oma and Opa, from Delanco, NJ.  Milton served as an American GI in Germany. While stationed in Germany, he met his wife, Charlotte, who is from Austria. They got married in Germany and had to marry four times for it to be legal.

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This is an interview with Joe McPhee, a jazz musician from Poughkeepsie, NY. Mr. McPhee served as an American GI in Germany, which he discusses in the interview. He speaks of the discontinuity between fighting for people’s right in Europe and then coming home to America and being deprived of the same rights. After serving, Mr. McPhee was active with the African American students at Vassar College. Joe McPhee continues as a musician. Check out his website by clicking HERE.

The U.S. Exhibition will be moving this week to the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. It will be open to viewers from Tuesday March 15^th at 5pm until April 30^th at 5pm.

While the U.S. Exhibition hits Georgia, the Germany Exhibition will be arriving at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Hauptstraße 120, 69117 Heidelberg) on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 6pm and will remain there until April 21st at 6pm.

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The exhibition will be at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS from Tuesday, February 8 at 5:00pm – March 13 at 5:00pm.