Italian, Irish, Polish, and other European immigrants who had each been deemed inferior races decades earlier came to be accepted as white Americans. Italians for the most part could not attend college before the war, but most gained entry afterward through the GI Bill.108 Black GIs were not given similar access. Education was still highly segregated, and there were not enough black-only colleges to accommodate them.109 Education led to economic mobility, which led to more social and political power and control.
