Social Impact of the War

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Social Impact of the War
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African Americans

• Faced discrimination in military through
  segregation
• Although African Americans made some gains during
  the war they continued to suffer discrimination
• Jim Crow System persisted in the South
• Discrimination in the North in housing and
  employment
• Most people (60) felt that African Americans
  were satisfied
• Government acted against discrimination for the
  first time in history
• CORE- Congress of Racial Equality
• Used non-violent techniques to end racism

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Mexican Americans

• Found new employment opportunities during the
  war, but they also encountered discrimination
• Jobs were in ship yards and aircraft factories
• Farm laborers faced crowded conditions and
  discrimination in neighborhoods- barrios
• Zoot suit riots- sailors looked for men in zoot
  suits and beat them up and humiliated them
• Led to full scale riots
• Mexicans were blamed

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Japanese Americans

• Japanese Americans suffered discrimination and
  hostility during the war
• After Pearl Harbor hostility toward Japanese
  Americans grew to hatred and hysteria
• Some joined the military

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Japanese internment

• Japanese Americans on the west coast were put
  into internment camps
• Sent to relocation camps
• Lived in wooden barracks
• Rooms had cots, blankets, one light
• Had to share toilet, bathing and dining
  facilities
• Uncomfortably close to concentration camps
• After the war some easily returned to regular
  lives
• While others lost everything

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Women

• The war created new employment opportunities for
  women
• Higher paying jobs were given to women because
  men were in the army
• After the war women were expected to go back to
  working at home
• Many did not want to
• The percentage of African American women in
  industrial jobs increased