SIR!  NO SIR! -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

The night before the troops were supposed to leave, there was a meeting of black G.I.s that gathered up in a parking lot in the First Armored Division section. 

And they were out there all night in the parking lot talking, and you know, they were having like a rap session or rally ...

why they were opposed to going to Chicago.

ELDER HALIM GULLAHBEMI, U.S. ARMY: We were making it clear that it was a genocidal thing that was going to go on, and how can I go and commit genocide on my people, shoot my people?

There were hundreds of black GIs out in that field.

Brothers came up and really started pouring it on then about discrimination and unfair treatment ...

not getting the rank they needed ...

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