Warm Up What race do you think the owner on Wanto Grocery is?

1. Warm Up • What race do you think the owner on Wanto Grocery is? • Why do you think he put this sign up? • What does it tell you about some white Americans who lived in this neighborhood?

2. The Homefront During WWII

5. Rationing • Office of Price Administration sets prices and limits availability of essential items • Meat, sugar, coffee, canned foods, fuel, nylons, & shoes all require ration coupons

6. War Production Board • Oversees transition to a wartime economy • “Rosie the Riveter” symbolizes female workers

7. Propaganda • Promotes conservation • Buying of war bonds • Any message to keep Americans focused on the war effort • Often racist or emotional

8. African-Americans • Serve in segregated units • Face continued discrimination at home • Double-V Campaign: Victory Abroad and at Home! • Continued migration to jobs in Northern cities

9. Japanese-Americans

12. Executive Order 9066 • Issued by President FDR in 1942 • Creates military camps in the west like Manzanar • Japanese Americans relocated to internment camps

16. Before & After Japanese Internment

19. Japanese Internment • All Japanese-Americans on West Coast - most were American citizens • 120,000 imprisoned until 1945 – upheld by Supreme Court • WHY? Discrimination, plus a false belief they were aiding the enemy

20. Yuri Kochiyama on Internment

27. The ZootSuit Riots • Los Angeles in 1942 • Wool among goods rationed during wartime • War Producion Board bans zoot suits • Baggy zoot suits popular among Latino young men

29. The Zoot Suit Riots

30. The Zoot Suit Riots • Clashes begin between stationed servicemen & Latinos • Explodes into riots in LA and other cities

31. The Zoot Suit Riots