Black US Soldiers Fighting on D-Day, Racism Back Home (plus POP QUIZ)

World War II veteran Johnnie Jones, Sr. poses for a portrait at his home in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 28, 2019. He remembers wading ashore and one incident when he and his fellow soldiers came under fire from a German sniper. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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• rig - v. to put something (explosive) secretly in (a place)
• rake - v. to shoot many bullets
• furious - adj. very angry
• expensive - adj. costing a lot of money
• decline - v. to say that you will not or cannot

POP QUIZ:

1.  Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II? (80)

2.  Who did the United States fight in World War II? (81)
 
3.  Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general.  What war was he in? (82)
 
4.  What movement tried to end racial discrimination? (84)