Teaching about African Americans in the Wars

The workshop presentation on teaching about African Americans in the War was an eye opener to how little my history class taught about other races. It is one thing to read Loewen and hear about how the history books do not teach enough, but this presentation caused me to think about my education and I realized how little we talked about African Americans. Through this presentation I learned that when African Americans served in World War II it acted as a catalyst to the Civil Right's Movements. During the Civil War the Union used lots of blacks while the confederates only used 50, which is not really all that surprising since I'm not sure why they would want to fight for slavery. The fact that blacks served as much as they did and fought for America's freedom when they could not get freedom for theirselves really surprised me.