Byrd

=Anthony Byrd=

The GI BILL was a Bill that was passed to ensure education training programs and a year of unemployment money to war soldiers coming out of the second World War. The GI BILL was created or signed in 1944 by Franklin D. Rossevelt. It was created to prevent the Bonus March from happening again. The Bonus March was a large group of people, approx. 43,000, including war veterans, protesting for immediate cash outside of World War I. The GI BILL was a success. Some of the goals that the GI BILL accomplished was being able o supply all war veterans with money and all the benefits of the GI BILL, except for the African Americans. African Americans did not receive as much benefits as there white counterparts. It was hard to try to start an education when you receive a little amount money and you have to do labor just to put food on the table. The poverty rate after African Americans got out of the war was another problem or reason not to go to college.