Buffalo Soldier turned revolutionary

Two more stories for Black History Month:
From former auto worker Jonathan Melrod, the fascinating story of David Fagen, who joined the U.S. Army to escape Jim Crow discrimination, and was sent to the Philippines, where not only did he and his fellow Black soldiers suffer from endemic racism in the military, but found that they were fighting on the wrong side of the U.S. war of Philippine conquest.

Then, Labor History Today correspondent Alan Wierdak talks with Caleb Smith, a PhD student at Tulane about an important Title 7 discrimination lawsuit involving Harris Parson, a Black Korean War vet who went to work at Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical in Bogalusa, Louisiana.

On this week’s Labor History in Two:  Remembering E.D. Nixon.

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