my labor services were confisgated. >> what was this right for you? >> -- what was this like for you? >> i was sent to fort stewart, georgia. i had some adjustment problems. i organized the black soldiers to go to the dance on the wrong night, and was threatened with a court martial. one of my friends asked a white girl to dance. i said this was a military function on a military base and i was able to participate. he said, you know what it is down here. he said it -- down here, there is segregated dancing. >> supposedly, harry truman stopped all of this. who was setting the rules? >> what he did, he ended the segregation of forces, and there were black units and why units before he ended that but now -- the units were mixed at that time, with black soldiers in the same barracks. they went to the same mess hall to eat as white soldiers and this was not true before. >> what was the difference -- you came out of philadelphia. what was the difference in the attitude of race? >> to give you an example, this is 1959. i was on the bus and i remember stopping