Black newspapers set up the double V campaign which meant...
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Card 7
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In which year did Roosevelt issue the Executive Order 8802 (in attempt to force industry to employ black people if they wanted to receive government contracts) and set up the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce this order?
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Race riots broke out in Detroit in June 1943; ... people were killed and ... worth of damage was caused. Black soldiers also rioted in ... army training camps because they were receiving unequal treatment.
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By the end of WW2 some units in the army were desegregated. Genral ..., the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe personally supported integrated units.
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At the beginning of WW2 there were only ... black officers in the US Army.
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By the end of WW2 much had changed. Black officers were appointed in all 3 services and the Air force began to train black pilots, ... in all by the end of the war.
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Many black Americans in the armed forces in WW2 were sent to ... where they served in countries that had no racial bars. When they returned to the USA in 1945 it was even harder to have to return to discrimination.
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Was the war a big boost to te civil rights movement?
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In ... Truman issued an Executive Order ending segregation in units in the armed forces. This came to effect in ... and was in force during ...
