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African Americans During WWII

African Americans During WWII. Joshua, Soojin, Lynn. African Americans on the home front. Migration to the North and West to seek for jobs Experience – continued segregation and discrimination Race Riots Fought for their rights. Economic- Migration to the North and West.

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African Americans During WWII

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  1. African Americans During WWII Joshua, Soojin, Lynn

  2. African Americans on the home front • Migration to the North and West to seek for jobs • Experience – continued segregation and discrimination • Race Riots • Fought for their rights

  3. Economic- Migration to the North and West • The West and the South economy boomed • Several war-industry cities grew explosively • Majority of migrants from the South were blacks • More than 1. 5 million African-Americans migrated to the South • Continued migration until 1970 “Second Great Migration” • Many took jobs In Southern cities and particularly many defense industry • But, job discrimination was common in defense jobs • “Whites-only” policies

  4. Changes? • Many African-American workers who were limited to segregated, low-skilled jobs in the South were able to get highly skilled, well-paid jobs ex) California shipyards • Many African-Americans had become a highly urbanized population • More than 80% lived in cities • Many African-Americans entered the middle class due to skilled industrial jobs • African-American communities in cities had a rage of jobs, professions and classes • Creation of black-owned businesses • Insurance, funeral homes, their own doctors and lawyers, churches and ministers

  5. Political – shift to the democratic party

  6. Bibliography • http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/#home • http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel/collections/subjectGuides/africanAmericanWorkers.html

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