Jazz and Justice. Gerald Horne

the time the United States entered the Second World War, such anger had not dissipated, particularly since an opponent—Tokyo—had assiduously cultivated African Americans over the years.⁹⁰ On the other hand, there was a sense that an anti-fascist war would also mean pushback against Nazism’s close cousin, Jim Crow, and this was not far wrong.⁹¹