Visitors the American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands who paused before the 8,301 graves of Americans who died freeing Europe from Nazi rule found a display honoring the Black military personnel buried who fought for freedom abroad while being denied it at home.

Until the plaques were quietly removed from the visitor center, almost certainly as part of the Trump administration effort to cleanse American history from conflict and negativism and to play down the separate contributions of minorities, to erase what it called “illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility’ (DEIA) programs.”

The panel spoke of how the Black soldiers were “fighting on two fronts,” a reference to an effort, prominent in black circles yet all but unknown among whites, called the “Double-V,” o

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