Fanon’s wartime racism drove him to join the Algerian revolution

Evidence

Another doctor to come over to the F.L.N., body and soul, at this time was the impassioned Martiniquais, Frantz Fanon. During the Second World War Fanon had joined the Free French, been wounded and decorated in the liberation of France, but then made the painful discovery that a black man was not treated as an equal in the French army. In 1956 he wrote a bitter letter to the governor-general, resigning his post at the Blida psychiatric clinic, and joined the underground. He became one of the revolution’s most articulate and extreme ideologues, and a violent exponent of anti-colonialism in any shape. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 429 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fanon joined the F.L.N. after discovering racism within the French army — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 429; the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”

Related

• Fanon joined the F.L.N. after discovering racism within the French army (similarity 0.97)
• Algerian doctors were reintegrated into the people when they joined the revolution (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Fanon joined the F.L.N. after discovering racism within the French army #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 429