Timuel Black Jr. was born on December 7, 1918 to two sharecroppers in Birmingham, Alabama. Timuel’s grandfather fought in the Civil War to ensure that one day his family could be free from a life in slavery. While Timuel was less than a year old his…

After being drafted into the army, Tim decided to travel down to the Carolinas to visit his brother, who was also drafted into the military before being deployed over to Europe. Since Tim had been raised in Chicago all of his life this trip would be…

Timuel was first deployed over to Scotland before being routed to South Hampton, England for what would become one of the biggest invasions in World War II. The plan was for the Western Allies to perform one of the largest amphibious invasions on the…

After the Invasion of Normandy, the 308th pushed further into France and continued upwards to Belgium. Tim describes how the African-American troops were discriminated by their fellow soldiers by stating, “The German Prisoners of War were allowed to…

With the end of the Battle of the Bulge the company needed a chance to regroup before continuing forward with their march into Germany. While at the camp site there were rumors traveling around about a camp located on the Ettersberg hill near Weimar,…

With the promise, Timuel had made for himself he went back to Chicago and devoted the rest of his life to public service, political equality and social activism. In 1946, Tim married his first wife Norisea Cummings and they had two children together…