CSPAN3 March 17, 2012
>> no questions. oh? >> could you talk a little bit about -- is that loud enough? could you talk a little bit about the salary disparages between the white troops and the black troops and when it changed and why it changed. and was it legislation that did it or was it at the military level? thank you. >> yeah. the black troops at first did not receive the same -- i mean, starting pay for a private was $13 a month. blacks were paid $10. this was purely the fault of congress and, you know, conflicting laws that they passed over time. it -- they finally straightened out the matter along...
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