How Britons welcomed black soldiers during WWII

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/wor ... t-GIs.html

This was no ordinary Saturday night punch-up outside a pub.

At the height of World War Two, with the country gripped in a life or death fight for freedom against fascism and dictatorship, dozens of local drinkers fought alongside black soldiers against white Military Police officers harassing them outside a Lancashire pub.

It was just one extraordinary example of the active support shown by ordinary Britons for the thousands of black American troops stationed amongst them during the war - in stark contrast to the vicious racist abuse they received from their fellow countrymen.

The Lancashire riot was just one of hundreds of cases of simple humanity displayed by ordinary Britons towards black soldiers.

Details of the riot are revealed in a new book (Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War) exploring the experience of black GIs stationed in Britain during the war.