Johnson / Military Occupation in Post-war Europe
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Johnson: Other kinds of things that you would see where people were so inhumane to create that kind of thing. I saw where cigarettes became the medium of exchange. I don’t think we ever want to see that because that’s almost devastating. Take by the bushel basket of money to buy a loaf of bread whereas you might could get it for two cigarettes. Then a lot of people didn’t have access to cigarettes or money, so it was chaotic in a lot of places. Very difficult from day-to-day.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Historic Periods › Jim Crow Period |
| Historic Periods › 1946-1950 | |
| Military › World War II | |
| Tags | Post-war Europe |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-21 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Johnson, James E. |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Bynum, Katherine | |
| Duration | 00:00:50 |
| Citation | "Military Occupation in Post-war Europe ," from James E. Johnson oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola and Katherine Bynum, July 21, 2015, Prairie View, TX , Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/705/recalling-occupation-in-post-war-europe, accessed April 20, 2024 |
