Court Street USO

Title: Court Street USO
Description: Court Street USO was founded in 1942 in downtown San Bernardino, CA. As the number of Black servicemen stationed at the nearby bustling air force base grew, the exclusion of Black airmen from the segregated white USO (and in some local businesses downtown) became an increasingly visible problem. The Court Street USO at 663 Court Street became an important social space for Black servicemen and the growing Black community, serving as a space for political action and civil rights during and after World War II.
Date: 1942
Creator: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project
Format: Information Sheet
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Rights Holder: The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project