Marines on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima. Gittelsohn, then a service chaplain, delivered a eulogy over newly-dug graves of U.S. Illustrative of the growing awareness as the War progressed, a young Rabbi, Roland B. In the midst of the War, in 1942, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal published The American Dilemma in which he observed: "America, for its international prestige, power and future security, needs to demonstrate to the world that American Negroes can be satisfactorily integrated into its democracy." Yet our own troops, when we entered that War, were racially segregated. Recall that the United States and its allies had fought, successfully, to destroy Hitler's Holocaust Kingdom and the rank racism that prevailed during the years of Nazi ascendancy in Europe.
Ginsburg gave this address at the Columbia School of Law.Īlthough the Brown decision did not refer to the international stage, there is little doubt that the climate of the era explains, in significant part, why apartheid in America began to unravel after World War II.
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