The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon ^45.1%

Mother Jones - By Chasity Hale - 7/4/2026, 11:30 AM

Politically Left Leaning Bias 29.7% - Anecdotal 25.3% - Biased Writer Voice 23.1%

Back in March, I wrote about the late Sarah Keys Evans, a Black veteran who played a key role in desegregating interstate travel. Before the summer of 1952, the 23-year-old private first class had never even taken part in a civil rights protest—but after she was arrested and jailed overnight in her Women’s Army Corps uniform for refusing... more