Designing Women S2 E9 - Look, This is America, You Big Palooka

Charlene’s psychic didn’t see Colonel Bill Stillfield coming. That’s OK, we didn’t see this 1940s “fever dream” musical coming, so… hope you’re up to date on your WWII-era history and references! (A quick primer: America, good. HItler, bad. Rations were a thing.) And we’ll dig into one big, little reference, the Hollywood Canteen, in "Salina’s Sidebar."

Stick around for this week’s "Extra Sugar" where we take a closer look at the role and experiences of African Americans in WWII.

Check out these reads:

• Hollywood Hospitality at the Hollywood Canteen

• Curtains for the Hollywood Canteen

• Hollywood Canteen (1944)

• Fighting for a Double Victory

• Black Americans Who Served in WWII Faced Segregation Abroad and at Home

• African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home

• Returning From War, Returning to Racism

• When Black Nurses Were Relegated to Care for German POWs

• Double V Campaign

Come on, let’s get into it!

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