CROIX DE GUERRE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Croix de Guerre

... in their faces? Shall these black survivors of terrific struggle for world democracy return home only to be declared unfit to vote an American ballot? Shall the black soldier hero be allowed to take his croix de guerre into a jim-crow car? Shall the black Red Cross nurse, rushing to the aid of benighted humanity regardless of color, be refused accommodation at places of public proprietorship whither she may seek rest or refreshment? Tragedy begets tragedy. Seventeen ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller