56. Black GIs: The Battle of Bamber Bridge (Ep 3)
Journey Through Time
Goalhanger
4.3 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:43.9 | Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm Sarah Churchwell. And I'm David Ola Sugar. |
| 0:51.4 | And this is the third of our series on the little-known history of the |
| 0:55.9 | deployment of 130,000 African-American GIs in Britain during the Second World War. It's the story of |
| 1:04.0 | what happened when American segregation, when Jim Crow laws were imposed upon Britain. And over the |
| 1:10.2 | next two episodes, we're going to dive |
| 1:12.4 | down into detail about two specific moments in this history. Both of them, very violent, |
| 1:19.3 | both of them largely forgotten. And there were similarities between them, but there's also |
| 1:23.4 | big differences. Because these were two moments in which the American army here in Britain, |
| 1:30.6 | in effect, fought itself when there were gunshots exchanged between soldiers, black and white, |
| 1:36.3 | within the American army opening fire on one another. |
| 1:39.3 | In both of these cases, African-American soldiers were killed. |
| 1:43.5 | In the next episode, we're going to tell the |
| 1:45.3 | story of the so-called Park Street riot of 1944 that took place in one of the most famous |
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