soldiers. The civil rights advocate Roy Wilkins said that African Americans wanted a “new world which not only shall contain no Hitler, but no Hitlerism … That means a fight for a world in which lynching, brutality, terror, humiliation and degradation through segregation and discrimination shall have no place—either here or there.” An editorial in the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper put it somewhat more bluntly: “We cannot march against enemy planes and tanks and challenge warships armed only with a whiskbroom and a wide grin.”55
