Black people & the Second World War (1940s)
- Created by: Katy **
- Created on: 17-04-14 10:56
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- WW2
- Jim Crow Army
- 1941
- USA joined WW2
- 1940
- Selective Service Act
- menial jobs
- repar
- cleaning
- cooking
- 1944
- blacks can fight
- turning point
- Tukegee Airmen
- D-Day
- surprised at intergration
- 1.5 million in Britain
- flights occured
- 1941
- At home
- 1944
- 2 million in factories
- Detroit
- 1943
- large scale rioting
- 30+ dead
- 1944
- Turning point
- fighting in war showed blacks value
- integration was possible
- Jim Crow Army
- anger
- NAACP
- anger
- Double V
- victory at war
- Victory at home
- post war support
- President Trueman
- civil rights
- 1948
- stop segregation in army
- 1946
- Fair Deal
- United Nations
- 1948
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- NAACP
- 50,000 to 450,000 members
- kick-start civil rights movement of 1950s
- Jim Crow Army
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