Ishikawa herself worked in one of the bars that served Black soldiers, at a time when most establishments were segregated.
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Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
In the years after WWII, the American government hired 100 Black women cryptologists to decode and read Soviet documents — the women were segregated and underpaid, but their work eventually led to the end of the Cold War.
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