At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morriss men serve as guards at The Parachute School, while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. They became Americas first black paratroopers.
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