GAR Veterans picture

[observator]

GAR Photograph | History Detectives | PBS

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[TallTallMan]

It appears that the GAR was somehow an example of racial equality. Come on, man! Please no more of this Noble Cause **** (not you, observator, but this link).

 

[elmira64]

With PBS being the source, should come as no surprise.

 

[major bill]

As far as I know the GAR was 'offically' integrated. But because the local post has to vote a person in, I am sure some posts would have not voted a Black veteran in. This would have been different from area to area. However, there certainly were some GAR posts with Black veterans.

Many faternal groups still take votes on membership and some local posts or chapters, are still basically segregated. I am in both the VFW and Sons of Union Veterans and both still have to vote a new member in. While both are 'officially' intigrated I would suspect some camps/posts would have a member or two who would not vote to let in some groups of people.

 

[elmira64]

As far as I know the GAR was 'offically' integrated. But because the local post has to vote a person in, I am sure some posts would have not voted a Black veteran in. This would have been different from area to area. However, there certainly were some GAR posts with Black veterans.

Many faternal groups still take votes on membership and some local posts or chapters, are still basically segregated. I am in both the VFW and Sons of Union Veterans and both still have to vote a new member in. While both are 'officially' intigrated I would suspect some camps/posts would have a member or two who would not vote to let in some groups of people.

Without a doubt, I would think this to be accurate. However I don't presume to answer for TTM, but I assume he meant to discredit the link / source. Which I feel to be justified, as PBS is notoriously
partisan and a proponent of revisionist history. Right or wrong, people had different mores back then. As MB illustrates, human nature does not always perform as hoped or expected.