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First Days of Peace: Race relations
When the US Army arrived in Britain during World War II to fight the racist Nazi regime, it was itself split on racial lines. Bonnie Greer looks back at what black GIs experienced in the UK and how they helped build a civil rights movement on the other side of the Atlantic.
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