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WW2 Experience for Minorities

WW2 Experience for Minorities . WW2 Note Packet April 8, 2014 . African Americans – In the Military . Segregation of troops Assigned to non-combat units  service duties (supplies, maintenance) Several African American fighter & bomber groups Tuskegee Airmen Faced prejudice coming home .

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WW2 Experience for Minorities

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  1. WW2 Experience for Minorities WW2 Note Packet April 8, 2014

  2. African Americans – In the Military • Segregation of troops • Assigned to non-combat units  service duties (supplies, maintenance) • Several African American fighter & bomber groups • Tuskegee Airmen • Faced prejudice coming home

  3. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history/videos/tuskegee-airman-luther-smith#http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/world-war-ii-history/videos/tuskegee-airman-luther-smith#

  4. African Americans at Home • Fair Employment Practices Committee • Migrating from south to north • Segregation  overcrowded urban ghettos • What did WW2 provide African American a foundation for?

  5. Japanese Americans – Immigration to the US • Immigration began in early 1900s • Mainly settled on West Coast • Nisei – American citizens of Japanese decent (2nd generation)

  6. Japanese Americans – Wartime Relocation Authority • Japanese Americans forced into interment camps • Fear from Pearl Harbor attack • WRA Camps functioned like communities • More than 100,000 people relocated

  7. Japanese Americans – Nisei Soldiers • Children of Japanese immigrants who volunteered to fight in WW2

  8. Korematsu v. United States (1944) • upheld the forced evacuation as a reasonable wartime measure • No acts of Japanese-American sabotage/treason/espionage were ever identified • 50 yrs. After WW2, US gov’t admitted WRA camps were unjust • 1988 – congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the approximately 60,000 surviving Americans who had been interned

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