he epic project that built the Alaska Highway and the Highway’s role in the defense of America during World War II is relatively well known. The racism that distorted and contaminated the project is not. Three segregated regiments worked on the Alcan. More than three thousand young black men faced up to the challenges that made the project epic, stood up to racism on top of that, and still delivered. And they received virtually no credit. Continue reading Revisit: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY, 1942: THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE FAR NORTH