• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    It wasn’t just the British system it was just the culture at the time for everywhere. The United States was far further behind the times at that point in time Britain.

    Segregation was still a thing in the 1940s to the point at which American soldiers coming to the UK had to have lessons in how not to be racist. Gay rights weren’t even on anyone’s radar back then.