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How did FDR affect african americans?

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He allowed African Americans to fight in WWII and also become pilots (Tuskeegee Airman) but he wasn't able to make too much progress against segregation. That came later, in the late'50s
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt allowed African Americans to join in the Army to fight for their freedom

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