Book review: “A Different Race” is Christine and Dennis McClure’s second book about Black soldiers building the Alcan, improving on their 2017 work “We Fought the Road.”
By Christine & Dennis McClure, Little Lands End Publishing, 250 pages, 2021. $19.95
The road was initially built in 1942 to provide access to the corridor where the Alaska Highway was being built at a furious pace. And as Christine and Dennis McClure document in their new book, “A Different Race,” building the road led to an incident that highlighted how Black Americans could come north in the peak of the Jim Crow era, still find themselves subjected to the whims of the white people in charge, and be harshly disciplined for something they did not deserve punishment for.
The McClures show how the regiment was chosen and detail their journey north through Valdez. In 1942, Black soldiers were barred from mixing with white civilians, and the Army worked hard to keep the barrier in place. And this was just to get to the Alcan itself. Upon reaching what is now the location of the community of Tok, they headed out in two directions to meet crews coming down from Delta and up through the Yukon, rushing to complete the road before winter set in.
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