The Effects of the GI Bill on the Education Climate

There were not a lot of historically black colleges in universities. The GI Bill also sent people to trade schools and helped veterans find jobs but here again men of color were at a disadvantage because of the military's racist practices back then. Private mortgage lenders employers and trade schools turned away black applicants so even though some people of color did benefit from the law Katz-Nelson says was to vastly widen the wealth and opportunity gaps between white and black Americans.