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How did the economic and social impact of World War II alter American society between 1939 and 1965 with regard to:
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| ...When the defense program began and billions of the taxpayers' money were appropriated for guns, ships, tanks, and bombs, Negroes presented themselves for work only to be given the cold shoulder. North as well as South, and despite their qualifications, Negroes were denied skilled employment. Not until their wrath and indignation took the form of a proposed protest march on Washington, scheduled for July 1, 1941, did things begin to move in the form of defense jobs for Negroes. |
Source: A. Philip Randolph States Black Goals, 1942. |
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In recent years an average of about 1,200,000 Americans moved
to the suburbs every year. Suburbia's population, by Fortune's count,
numbered about 30 million in 1953 and has grown by about one-half since
1947.... What is more, Suburbia is the exemplification of the new and
growing moneyed middle class, which Fortune described as a market that
seems bound, sooner or later, to become the American market.... |
Source: Fortune Magazine, 1955. |
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I do know one thing, this place was very segregated when I first
come here. Oh, Los Angeles, you just couldn't go and sit down like you do
now. You had certain places you went. You had to more or less stick to the
restaurants and hotels where black people were. It wasn't until the war
that it really opened up. 'Cause when I come out here it was awful, just
like bein' in the South....
The war helped some people because they come back, they took
trades, learned to do things. My brother come back and now he is very
successful. I think the army really made a man out of him. He works at
Rockwell in the missile department and he's a supervisor. He wouldn't have
known what to do if he hadn't gone in the army.... They didn't mix the white and black in the war. But now it gives you a kind of independence because they felt that we gone off and fought, we should be equal. Everything started openin' up for us. We got a chance to go places we had never been able to go before.... |
Source: Opportunities for Women and Blacks, ca. 1942-1945. |
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U.S. Statutes at Large (78th Cong., 2nd Sess., p. 284-301) AN ACT To provide Federal Government aid for the readjustment in
civilian life of returning World War II veterans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be
cited as the ''Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944''. TITLE II 1. Any person who served in the active military or naval
service on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to the termination of
the present war,... shall be eligible for and entitled to receive
education or training under this part.... TITLE III-LOANS FOR THE PURCHASE OR CONSTRUCTION OF HOMES,
FARMS, AND BUSINESS PROPERTY Chapter V-General Provisions for Loans Purchase or Construction of Homes Sec. 501. (a) Any application made by a veteran under this title for the guaranty of a loan to be used in purchasing residential property or in constructing a dwelling on unimproved property owned by him to be occupied as his home may be approved by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs .... |
Source: GI Bill of Rights, 1944. |
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There was one good thing came out of it. I had friends whose
mothers went to work in factories. For the first time in their lives, they
worked outside the home. They realized that they were capable of doing
something more than cook a meal....
But even here we were sold a bill of goods. They were hammering
away that the woman who went to work did it temporarily to help her man,
and when he came back, he took her job and she cheerfully leaped back to
the home.... I think a lot of women said, S---w that noise. 'Cause they had a taste of freedom, they had a taste of making their own money, a taste of spending their own money, making their own decisions. I think the beginning of the women's movement had its seeds right there in World War Two.... |
Source: Dellie Hahne Recalls the War's Impact on Women's Attitudes, ca. 1945. |
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It seems to me, it seems to me, that the Democratic party needs to
make definite pledges of the kinds suggested in the minority report to
maintain the trust and the confidence placed in it by the people of all
races and all sections of this country....
To those who say, to those who say that this civil-rights program
is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: the time has arrived in
America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of state's
rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights!... |
Source: Hubert Humphrey, Speech on the Civil Right Plank, July 14, 1948. |
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