How did american minorities face threats to their freedom at home and abroad during world war ii?
read the selection below from charles h. wesley, “the negro has always wanted the four freedoms,” in what the negro wants (1944). [negroes] have wanted what other citizens of the united states have wanted.
they have wanted freedom and opportunity.
they have wanted the pursuit of the life vouchsafed to all citizens of the united states by our own liberty documents.
they have wanted freedom of speech, [but] they were supposed to be silently acquiescent in all aspects