Discrimination During Ww2

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World war two brought on many conflicts to and end. Discrimination was a major concern to over come but the war has a way of changing many things. Women were no longer just housewifes working low pay women jobs. African Americans were no longer set aside because of their skin color. And many other ethnic groups were change too. Women were the first to get the newline of life. Government officials and corporate recrutiers urged women to take jobs in defence industries, creating a new image of working women. The government had directed its publicity at housewifes, but many working women gladly gave up their jobs for higher paying work in the defence industries. Women had made up 36 precent of the labor force in 1945, compared to 24 precent at the beginning ofthe war. It was however a …show more content…

The African American people were pointing to parallels between anti-sentism in Germany and racial discrimination in the U.S. Mr. Du Bois said " the freedom of Negros in the southern United States, then my guns on my shoulder." Even before pearl harbor, in 1940 only 240 black men out of 100,000 people were aircraft workers. Most of them were janitors. So even though president Roosevelt wasn't fond of African American equality he didn't want the protesting and speeches getting in the way of the war effort. So he enacted executive order 8802 were it would be proibited to discriminate in the employment of workers in defence industries or government because of race. Other ethnic groups were also affected the Mexican Americans in almost the same was as the African Americans. But due to wartimes president Roosevelt contracted hundrends of thousands of mexican labor forces in the United States. Along with the Native Americans, they were not discriminated like the others but they were used to "code talk" because of their language. The navajo tripe people communicated to the fleet commanders in the pacific. Word Count: 346 Sample

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