...the WWII change the lives of Black Americans? The Second World War has caused many changes in America. The fight against Nazis in Europe demonstrated that US suffered from the same problem of racism and the white supremacy and that something had to be done. During the wartime many African Americans had to move from Southern farms to Northern and Western cities, as there was a lack of jobs because of the increase of machinery in farming industry. At the same time, new factories that produced war equipment needed more labourers as most white men had left America to fight in WWII and it gave Black Americans an opportunity to find new jobs in those spheres, but some companies like Railroads refused to employ black people. Still, new workplaces allowed them to receive higher pay so it was a pull factor for them, however they had a little perspective to get a better job in future that required higher skills. The migration flow during wartime led to development of black communities and cultural life in cities such as New York and Chicago as the migrant workers lived close to the factories they worked in so it means closer to each other. There still were racial tension and conflicts, but not as bad as back at South, so eventually, black people felt comfortable to stay there and their new economical state and political influence allowed them to do so as they were important part of war economy. By the end of the Second World War approximately 1 million of African Americans...
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...Mary Louise was a skilled nurse who enlisted into the Army Nurse Corps during the WWII. When Mary Louise graduated a high school in Texas in 1930, her father died. Her thirty-four-year mother had to take care Mary Louise and five younger siblings; but it was hard for a single mom to be a breadwinner during the Depression. The Roberts family moved back to Mississippi, where Mary Louise’s grandparents lived, and she started to work in a laundry. However, the owner did not want to hire her because of her age, sixteen. Her mom replaced her job and Mary stayed at home to look after the younger siblings. When she became eighteen, Mary Louise went to a nurse training program in Alabama to help her family’s living. In 1941, she earned stable, but still deficient, monthly income as an operating room supervisor, and she invited her family to Alabama to live with them. When America entered the WWII, Mary Louise volunteered, because she thought it was a duty as a...
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...African-Americans Civil Rights Throughout the 20th Century African-Americans have made significant contributions to America since their introduction to America in the 1600s. Up until 1865, the majority of African-Americans were enslaved working in plantations and only being counted as three-fifths of a person. It wasn’t until the late 1960s with the implementation of President Johnson’s Great Society programs that African-Americans were given equal rights to that of a white person (OpenStax, 849). From Plessy v. Ferguson to the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, African-Americans have suffered through many setbacks at the expense of a government that did not recognize them equal to the white man. The struggle of for civil rights within the...
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...The topic that I chose for this expository essay was titled: Black Men In the Army. I chose this topic because one, I am a black man. And two, I feel like the blacks’ had a very important and vital influence on the wars that the U.S fought. They risked their lives to help make america the country that it is today. That is why I chose this topic. The first article that I used is titled, “What Was Black America’s Double War?” I used this article to help support my reasoning. This entire article's main idea was mainly talking about how many African Americans helped during the pearl harbor attacks. As it says in paragraph #1 “ 5,000 black men fought for the Patriot cause in the American Revolution.” and to me that is very important. The key ideas of this entire article was basically saying that discrimination and all types of hate were brought upon the African Americans during the wars. And how they fought for their freedom. The article also shows how important these men were to our...
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...Tutor: Date: To What Degree Did World War II Affect the American Society? World War II occurred between 1939 and 1945. It led to many developments, some of them positive, others negative. One of the effects of World War II in America is that it led to deaths of many Americans. Among these were soldiers and civilians. Some of them were shot while at the war front. Others died due to the harsh environment of the war. According to Somerville (2008) the war left about 418,500 Americans died. This was about 0.32% of the total population. World War II was the highest in position terms of cost in U.S. history with costs over $350 billion and more than 292,000 American military men killed in action. The war also led to the destruction of properties worth billions of shillings. It was an enormous blow to the American economy, although not as much as other countries suffered (Kenneth, 2007) World War II changed the American social structure in a number of ways which included the empowerment of women especially in the workforce. Also many minorities groups got more jobs beside the discrimination by the rich Americans. Also the divorce rate increased and many families were weakened. World War II did affect almost every sector and aspect of American life. The decade of economic hardship is clearly marked to be 1930's. In 1930, the Great Depression got deep, and millions of American citizens were forced out of their jobs. Americans had too little money to provide necessities for their families...
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...Minorities and Women in WWII Considering the accomplishments the first world war has bought to the U.S., America saw the second world war as another window to gain a momentous boost in the economy. While there was noticeable growing tension between Asia and Europe (tension among Japan in Asia and Hitler to Europe), America underwent a fairly occurring normal life seeing the economy relax from its depressed state. To prevent themselves from getting dragged into another war, they realized that they had to adapt from their actions of WWI; they discovered through investigations that it was weapon manufacturing that drove them into the war. The U.S. responded accordingly with a more proper response of passing acts cut weapon trade with war countries, which were a series of laws specifically called the Neutrality Acts. They did not sell arms, loans, and had no business with war countries whatsoever. The key idea to not get involved with other foreign countries was isolationism. During the time, however, problems still existed in terms with racial inequalities and where women belong. They were ignored to some extent; women were still out of the picture as they were seen inferior which still also applies to African Americans who are still segregated. As the U.S. struggled through the Great Depression, minority rights were not addressed even in Roosevelt's New Deal. Positive changes were bought to American nationality during WWII, but even in the end certain groups still struggled...
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...human undertaking. Today, American society is faced with a residential, geographic phenomenon among urban and suburban communities that disadvantages African American citizens through the discriminatory denial of residential and economic freedom, a Constitutional promise that is guaranteed to all Americans. Modern America is confronted with a socially and geographically segregated society structured on the hierarchies of race, having the greatest consequences for African American communities, the most segregated racial group in American society. The Great Migration of the early twentieth century was a symbolic beacon of hope for African Americans leaving their homes in the rural South to a new land of promise in the urban North. While this migration created vast amounts of opportunity for African Americans that could have not existed in the Jim Crow-era South, the movements of these people would carry the racial divisions and hostilities of society to the level of a national plight. Northern whites implemented various practices in order to manipulate urban housing markets in the effect of restricting the residential mobility of African Americans and to confining African Americans to undesirable urban neighborhoods, and therefore setting the nature of race relations in northern communities and leading to the national development of twentieth century urban ghettos. In effect of this mass migration, racially motivated actions of individual American citizens, private housing...
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...World War II. Not only was WWII considered a good war for the majority of Americans, but it was also beneficial to the minorities of America. The two groups that benefited the most were the African-Americans and women. The main benefits of America as a whole were it pulled the country out of the depression, and it united people through sacrifice and cooperative projects. WWII was also a beneficiary war to the African-Americans and women by increasing their participation in the work force, and also helped to increase their wages. WWII was one of the major factors that helped pull America out of the Great Depression. During the years of World War II the wages of workers was at the highest that it had been since the 1920s (Henretta, et. al. 739). Wages had increased by 70% during this time (Lecture, April 11, 2013). Even though these extra wages were mostly gained by workers working overtime in the shipyards and military factories, it was still money that people had not had in twenty years (Henretta, et. al. 739). Because of all of the overtime working in the factories, manufacturing doubled (Lecture, April 11, 2013). A secondary effect of people having more money was that they were willing to spend it on more things to stimulate the country’s economy. Another effect the war had on helping The United States’ economy was the gross national product. “Between 1940 and 1945, the annual gross national product doubled, after-tax profits of American businesses nearly doubled, and...
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...African Americans time and time again have been the target of oppression and racial injustice. Even so, during time of need, they were there to protect and serve their nation. In World War II over 2.5 million Black men registered for the draft, and one million served throughout all branches of the Armed Forces during the conflict. Within that one million, over 12,000 black men were forced to stay in segregated combat support groups. By the 1940s there was 145,000 black men serving in the US Army Air Force. This included the 99th Fighter Squadron, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen. The Tuskegee Airmen were African American bomber and fighter pilots who were awarded for their heroic service during World War II. The Navy put up a lot of resistance when it came to letting blacks serve and only allowed them to serve as mess attendants. But, with pressure from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and civil...
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...of the United States during times of war. Being president during this time came with many challenges such as policies before war, actions against civil liberties during war and plans for after war times. There are similarities and differences of the presidents in each area. Prior to the war Wilson and FDR had similarities such as they both practiced policies of neutrality. However FDR practiced a policy of "two fold neutrality" which just means he discouraged belligerents from purchasing US goods. Another similarity is both presidents changed the amount they traded with aggressors throughout the wars. For example as WWI went on, Wilson decreased the amount of trade with Germany, the aggressor, and increased trade with Great Britain. FDR did almost the same thing only with Japan. But, FDR terminated the trade treaty the US had with Japan and would no longer export goods to them. Finally FDR put in a neutrality act, which outlawed all sales or loans to nations at war. Prior to the war both presidents practiced neutrality and changed their trade laws and agreements. During WWI and WWII civil liberties were taken away during war time. During the time of both Presidents immigrants were treated differently. Like during WWI German Americans were discriminated against there were shunned and many even lost their jobs. Also, during WW! school stopped the teaching of German language to students. A major difference in the discrimination of groups is during WWII FDR had over 110,000...
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...In 1944, majority of African Americans played a role in the armed forces for the United States during World War ll. Many other African Americans went to work on farms and in factories to help with wartime production. African American civil rights leaders convinced the government to set up all black combat units. They set it up as an experiment to see how well African American soldiers perform military tasks like white soldiers. War industries created a demand for labor for many black workers including black women. Black women and men volunteered in large numbers. They served in the Army, Army Air Forces, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. At the start of the war, African American soldiers were generally not a part of the fighting...
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...through the 1990s. Then explain how various presidents have dealt with economic problems and why they succeeded or failed. 5. Write an essay about the impact of television on the history of the United States over the past fifty years in which you describe in detail at least one historical event of national importance from each decade of the 1950s - 1990s that was affected by TV. Civil Right: The WWII can be recognized at the origin of the period when United States started it political and economical dominant compare to other nations. WWII reshaped Americans’ understanding of themselves as a people. The struggle against Nazi tyranny and its theory of a master race discredited ethnic and racial inequality. Originally promoted by religious and ethnic minorities in the 1920s and the Popular Front in the 1930s, a pluralist vision of American society now became part of official rhetoric. What set the United States apart from its wartime foes, the government insisted, was not only dedication to the ideals of the Four Freedoms but also the principle that Americans of...
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...to formally become part of the majority American society. For a long time African Americans, Native Americans (Indians), Mexican Americans, and women were treated differently compared to everyone else (white men) and not in a good way. World War II brought about a lot of changes including, more working opportunities and military opportunities for minorities. African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and women were allowed to join the military although there were still some segregation and discrimination. African-Americans gained economic independence during WWII because of the job openings throughout the industry. African-American soldiers were welcomed into certain branches of the armed forces in this war, but, like other wars, there was discrimination and segregation. Soldiers still fought in segregated units throughout the war, but there were advances in the number of commissioned officers. Other forms of racism included barring African-Americans from the Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army Air Corps, and the Navy only allowed African-Americans as mess men. These conditions were not promising, and these policies have been called “Jim Crow military”. Some changes were made with the 1940 Selective Service Training Act which stated that all men between 18 and 36, regardless of race, were eligible to volunteer in naval and ground forces without fear of discrimination. It also prohibited racial and/or color discrimination in selection and training of military personnel...
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...Running head: AFRICAN AMERICANS African Americans Past to Present HIS204 Tyrone Johnson Professor Kimberly Hornback June 18, 2012 Before the American Civil War, medical observers deemed psychosis to be rare in slaves, but common in free blacks of the North and of Caribbean descent. After 1865, the prevailing psychiatric perception of African Americans was that psychosis was increasing at an alarming rate. Basically observers that many African Americans had some sort of mental illness, which lead to them being over diagnosis, which created very much false impressions of who they were. Jarvis (2008), Reasons for the increasing rates were initially scribed to the effects of emancipation, but as researchers reported rates of psychosis to be on the rise through the first half of the 20th century, the stress of internal migration and social adversity were increasingly invoked as explanatory factors. Even though many changes and the challenges did not seemly to actually change. The involvement in the ending of isolation among African Americans, as well being one of the culture groups of people involved in the struggles, segregation, civil rights movement...
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...The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past Student Name HIST 204 Naomi Rendina September 3, 2012 The Women of Today are Thankful for the Women of Our Past The American Women started out as the basic homemaker since coming to the New World. They were seen as nothing but a person that should stay home with the children, tend to the land and their husbands. As the world began to change, so did the view point and the rights of women. This change did not happen overnight and it was not an easy battle. The women of our past paved the road so that the women today can play a major role in the military, politics and on the home front of America. The first battle for women’s rights came in the mid to late 1800’s, prior to the Civil War at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848. The movement came to a sudden halt, just as it started to begin, due to the Civil War. In 1869 the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote, fueled the women’s right movement even more (Bowles 2011). Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a major role in the early part of this movement. In May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; an organization made up primarily of women. Their object was to secure an amendment to the Constitution in favor of women's suffrage, and they opposed passage of the Fifteenth Amendment unless it was changed to guarantee to women the right to vote...
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