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US/VA WWII PBL: African Americans

Carmen Conteras Bozak

African American experience during World War II 

African American WWII fighter pilots

Pilots of a U.S. Army Air Forces fighter squadron, credited with shooting down 8 of the 28 German planes destroyed in dog-fights over the new Allied beachheads south of Rome, on Jan. 27, talk over the day's exploits at a U.S. base in the Mediterranean theater. Negro members of this squadron, veterans of the North African and Sicilian campaigns, were formerly classmates at a university in the southern United States. February 1944.

National Archives Records Administration: 208-MO-18H-22051.

Photo atrributed to: USGov-Military-Army [Public domain], https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/

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Articles

Patriotism Crosses the Color Line: African-Americans in World War II (Newsela article)

Source citation:

Taylor, Clarence. "Patriotism Crosses the Color Line: African-Americans in World War II." Newsela, 6 June 2017, newsela.com/read/gl-history-african-americans-world-war-II?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=web. Accessed 22 Apr. 2019.
Videos

Labor Market for African Americans and Women in the 1940's

Source citation:

“Labor Market For African-Americans and Women in the 1940's, The.” Films Media Group, 2011, learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102783&xtid=71162. Accessed 8 Apr. 2019.

Post World War II Labor Market

Source citation:

“Post World War II Labor Market, The.” Films Media Group, 2011, learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102783&xtid=71112. Accessed 8 Apr. 2019.

Post World War II Housing and Segregation

Source citation:

“Post World War II Housing and Segregation.” Films Media Group, 2011, learn360.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102783&xtid=71112. Accessed 8 Apr. 2019.
Primary Source

Executive Order 9980

Following World War II, President Truman signed Executive Orders 9980 and 9981.  EO 9980 was a mandate to integrate the Federal workforce and EO 9981 desegregated the Armed Forces.

Source citation:

Executive Order 9980, Dated July 26, 1948, in which President Truman sets Regulations Governing Fair Employment Practices within the Federal Establishment; 7/26/1948; General Records of the United States Government, Record Group 11. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/executive-order-9980-dated-july-26-1948-in-which-president-truman-sets-regulations-governing-fair-employment-practices-within-the-federal-establishment, Accessed April 22, 2019.

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