Category: Black History Month

Front page with photo of Governor Chester Bowles signing legislation ruling out bias in the National guard, Major General Reincke is looking over his shoulder.

In 1949, CT Made Civil Rights News

“ ‘Jim Crow’ was handed a dishonorable discharge from the Connecticut National Guard on March 16, 1949, when Governor Chester Bowles signed a bill outlawing segregation and discrimination on account of race, creed, or...

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