Word: mp
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Staff Sergeant Kenneth J. White, Sergeant Major of the Harvard ROTC from August, 1938 to September 17, 1942, was promoted on the latter date to a second lieutenancy. He is now at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in service with an MP battalion. Sergeant J. W. Parry has replaced him as chief clerk of military affairs here...
...army has stationed Negro trainees in Southern training camps, in total disregard of the common fact that race prejudice is there most intense. The results were inevitable. On January 10 a white MP and civilian police opened fire on a group of colored troops in Alexandria, Louisiana, and 29 of the soldiers were wounded. A War Department investigation has determined that, "while a show of force may have been necessary to disperse the crowd which gathered when a colored soldier resisted arrest by a military policeman, the shooting was unnecessary." This was not the first, but merely the most spectacular...
...best. But the present plan can hardly be justified as clear-headed reality. There is nothing realistic in the policy of stationing Negro soldiers in the ultra-prejudiced South, where they are excluded from many towns and proper recreation. There is nothing realistic in the policy of arming Negro MP's only with billy clubs, and then assigning white MP's with guns to patrol colored districs. There is nothing realistic in the policy of white commanders, who have agreed to comply with the demands of local authorities. In one instance townspeople and state police forced colored troops to walk...