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*WWII veteran Joe LaNier fights racism to come home

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In the 23rd Special Construction Battalion, the officers were white and the seamen and steward’s mates — basically servants — were black. “I’m from Georgia,” an officer told them. “Where I come from, there’s only two kinds of niggers — a good nigger and a dead nigger. We don’t want no dead ones.”

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Carmen Sisson June 9, 2012 May 21, 2015Published Favorites, Recent Bylines African-American, Joe Lanier II, military, Mississippi, racism, segregation, South, The Commercial Dispatch, veteran, World War II, WWII 0
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