Before World War II (1939–1945) began, many African-Americans lived in the South. They eked out a living as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. As the nation prepared for war, better paying factory and manufacturing jobs became available in the North and on the coasts. Those opportunities encouraged many African-American men and women to relocate. Black Americans also moved to southern cities, such as Birmingham and Mobile, which grew into important military manufacturing centers. Those shifts from one part of the country to other parts led to other changes. People from different backgrounds came in contact with and worked with one another. Those experiences made black Americans determined to resist racial discrimination.
Although the U.S. government denounced Nazi racism overseas, white Americans maintained their own racist system of inequality and violence against black citizens. In many parts of the country, African-Americans were denied the right to vote. They attended segregated and inferior
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schools. They faced discrimination or exclusion from branches of the military and certain jobs. And for some black workers, high unemployment and low wages remained.
The contradiction angered African-Americans. They demanded that the nation live up to its highest ideals. The Pittsburgh Courier, a black weekly newspaper, launched a "Double V" campaign in 1942. It called for "victory over our enemies from without" — the Germans and the Japanese — and "victory over our enemies from within" — American racism. Black Americans took those words seriously. They strongly supported the war effort and they also engaged in protests against racial injustice at home.
A. Philip Randolph led the way. He was the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a black labor organization. For decades, Randolph had challenged racial inequality. In September 1940, Randolph was part of a delegation that met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and demanded that the president end segregation in the armed forces. Roosevelt did not act.
In January 1941, Randolph decided to take a more forceful approach. He proposed a m
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the Highland Scots
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The trustee period is the period covering the first 20 years of Georgia history, from 1732 to 1752 the province of Georgia was governed by a board of trustees that chose Georgia as a location for the resettlement of English debtors and “worthy poor". The malcontents were in displeasure with the policies of General James Oglethorpe, and Georgia trustees, the border ruffians were pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, the Salzburgers were a group of German-speaking protestant colonists. The Scottish Highlanders were a group of settlers that came to help defend Georgia from Spanish invaders, they were into the finest soldiers in the world and were recruited by General Oglethorpe to fight against the Spanish colony in Florida, plus the Gaelic languages were spoken between Scottish people.
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lay out and transportation links, canals helped transport goods in between cities and into cities for imports and also exported them, with this came the ability to travel quicker therefore more ethnic groups began migrating around the country to different cities increasing the ethnic diversity
A group of people sharing common interest on a subject
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your country and how to improve it</span>
