Post #1675146

2023-07-14 22:08 UTC

Congressman Rankin successfully pushed for the GI Bill to be administered by individual states rather than the federal government. He even attempted to weaken a provision that entitled all veterans to $20 a week of unemployment compensation for a year, which would have been a significant gain for Black Southerners. 6/ #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise

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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2023-07-14 22:09

Rankin stalled to a deadlock. However, the deadlock was broken when the American Legion tracked down a Congressman who had left his proxy vote with Rankin and flew him to Washington. Finally, Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act into law in June 1944, during the D-Day offensive. 7/ #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise

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@tarheel@mstdn.io 2023-07-14 23:00

@Deglassco This I actually did know about, courtesy of a Racial Equity Institute phase 1 seminar, along with a new-to-me discovery of another major Supreme Court case involving the right of Black doctors to practice at Moses Cone hospital in Greensboro (https://www.conehealth.com/news/news-search/2016-news-releases/cone-health-honors-dr-alvin-blount-/#:~:text=1962%20Simkins%20vs.-,Moses%20H.,thus%20letting%20the%20decision%20stand.), where my dad was a doc at the time. @gaurav REI is local, you might want to check them out sometime.

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