The Forgotten Generation Analysis

Part One: The Jim Crow South
The Jim Crow system was a post-Reconstruction series of legislation that established legally authorized racial segregation of the African American population of the South soon after the Civil War. The Jim Crow system ended in the 1950s with the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. As Hewitt and Lawson note, “these new statutes denied African Americans equal access to public facilities and ensured that blacks lived apart from whites.” With the 1896 Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, the court upheld the legality of the Jim Crow legislation. The court ruled that as long as states provided “separate but equal” facilities for whites and blacks, Jim Crow laws did not violate the equal protection clause

Ossian uses case studies to show readers the hardships of American children in the home-front during World War II. She does not have an overt argument, but instead uses powerful narrative description to summarize what happened to the “Forgotten Generation,” otherwise known as the children from the American home-front during World War II. She especially emphasizes the children’s experiences of pride and grief during this time period. I read the preface but did not see an argument. So I then read the introduction and there was still no argument. After that, I went online to see if I could find the argument; I found a review that said there is no

The ones that are primary are mostly newspaper articles and memoirs. I researched one of the book’s primary sources, Dorinda Makanaonalani’s Pearl Harbor: A Child’s View of Pearl Harbor from Attack to Peace. I found her website, which talks about how her book is her memoir of what happened that day in Pearl Harbor, the attack she witnessed when she was a young child. Every person has their own unique experience of the war effort. For children their experiences made them feel pride and grief. Everyone made attempts to contribute to the war effort, by buying war bonds and stamps, and recycling. For example, Dorinda Makanaonalani’s family planted a victory garden for fresh food and even raised rabbits for meat, which made her more determined to work in the