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War WorkingWomen and Minorities

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Mexicans •Mexicans faced discrimination•Zoot suitors were attacked but they were arrested not the attackers (Los Angeles)

•Bracero program- brought laborers from Mexico to work on farms

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African Americans• Few African Americans found

meaningful employment w/ national defense employers

• Stressed for a “Double V” campaign- victory against fascism aboard and victory against discrimination at home

• A. Philip Randolph- Africans Americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship

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African Americans Cont.

•FDR issued Executive Order 8802

•This assured fair hiring practices in any job funded w/ gov. money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce these requirements

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Women•Women made up 1/3 of the

wartime workforce•Women labored in both blue-

collar and white-collar jobs•During the 1940s the # of

women employed in secretarial and clerical work increased by a five-fold

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Women Cont.

•Women gained some benefits from wartime

•Earned paychecks•Formed new and diff. relationships

•Gained organizational experience

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Military Nurses• Nurses pay was better than an average

civilian women• Room, board, and laundry were taken care

of • Eating was a major problem(2 meals a

day)• 8 to 9 hundred victims a day• ANC was created by congress in 1901 in

response to the work women did as volunteers

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Military and Industrial Women

• 6,000 women who were volunteers were to be militarized

• Women’s Auxiliary Corps was established to protect from incoming enemy planes

• 13,000 U.S women served w/ the same status as men in the navy and marine corps during WWI

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Cont.• Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)• Women’s Royal Navy Service

(WRENS)• Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)• Tanks and ships were built by

women• Women were producing 120,000

planes annually

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Significance to the War

•Women- nurses, helped with airplane parts, and they joined the military

•Mexicans- were laborers on farms

•African Americans- drafted unto the military draft

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Overview

Due to World War II more opportunities came about for women, African Americans, and Mexicans.

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Quiz

1) What were the three groups of women?

2) What was the program called that sent Mexican laborers to the U.S. for farming?

3) What was a “Double V” Campaign?

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Answers

1)Military Women, Industrial Women, and Military Nurses

2)Bracero Program3)Victory against fascism

aboard and victory against discrimination at home

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Works Cited

• Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. United States history. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

• Weatherford, Doris. American women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

• "Women and World War II - Female Soldiers - Roles of Women - Home Front - Concentration Camps." Women's History - Comprehensive Women's History Research Guide. 30 Mar. 2010 <http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/Women_and_World_War_II.htm>.