WWII: African-

American Gains and Struggles

5 Million Volunteers10 Million Draftees

500,000 African American Women-War Industries

DORIE MILLER DR. CHARLES DREW

Segregated Units

Tuskegee Airmen

Racial Discrimination Outlawed

• Executive Order 8802: Roosevelt outlaws discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin in the federal government or in defense factories.

• FEPC: Fair Employment Practices Committee-to enforce 8802

Executive Order 9981 • July 26, 1948 -Truman. • Abolished racial discrimination in the

United States Armed Forces • July 26, 1951-The US military officially

desegregated.

• HOWEVER, WIDESPREAD RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION CONTINUED and WORSENED.

A TIME FOR JUSTICE

• See DVD

Executive Order 9066

Japanese-American Boy Scout Troop in an Internment Camp