I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of the past. Colin Powell would not be Colin Powell were it not for the guys in World War II, young black men who went to the war and came back and got an education and fought for their civil rights. It's a mirror to the present.
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What we called ourselves in 1944 - colored or Negro - we don't do anymore. Where we are now is not where we were then. It's very important for young people to understand that.Charles Fuller
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