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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Christine McClure: Racial injustice during construction of the Al-Can Highway
Description: Send us Fan MailOn the 80th anniversary of the completion of the Alaska-Canada highway, we talk with author Christine McClure, who with her late husband Dennis, wrote two books about the construction of the Al-Can. The first, We Fought the Road was a more general history of the three African-American regiments that were instrumental in the building of that 1600 mile road in just 8 months. Today we explore their second book: A Different Race which tells a specific story. The winter of 1943 was record-setting cold in interior Alaska. Soldiers of the 97th regiment were not...