Race and ethnicity in WWII

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Race and ethnicity in WWII

• African-Americans move to War Industries
• Modernisation of the South
• 1940-44 Popn. Increases 19 in 10 largest areas
  of war production.
• 1945 peak migration of blacks

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Challenging Discrimination

• Spring 1941.Threat of March on Washington
• June 1941 Exec Order 8802 and Fair Employment
  Practices Committee (FEPC)

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Black Servicemen and women

• Discrimination
• Tensions around military bases
• Jan 1942, Alexandria, Louisiana
• Aug 1943 Harlem Riot

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Tukegee, Alabama
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Detroit

• Sojourner Truth housing project
• Summer 1943 Riots
• 34 Killed, 700 injured

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Civil Rights in War-time

• A War for Freedom
• Double Victory
• 1942 CORE
• Apr 1944 Smith vs. Allwight
• Increase in voter registation

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Japanese-Americans

• Racism and disloyalty
• Spring 1942 evacuation to War Relocation
  Camps
• 1943 Questionnaire

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Zoot Suit Riots

• August 1942 Sleepy Lagoon Murder
• Jan 1943, Sentenced
• 3-13 June 1943 Servicemen attack Mex-Am youth.
• October 1944, Verdict overturned

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FDR

• Conservative Gains
• 1944, FDR Re-elected
• D. 12 April 1945
• Sob heavy world, sob as you spinMourn for him
  nowOur colossal Father (AUDEN)