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While African Americans were often relegated to support roles during World War II, often these roles could be exceedingly hazardous. An accidental munitions explosion at Port Chicago, California, claimed the lives of over 200 African American sailors in 1944. Some sailors refused to resume work until conditions were made less hazardous.
In 1910, the African-American population of Detroit was 6,000. The Great Migration, along with immigrants from southern and eastern Europe as well as their descendants, rapidly turned the city into the country's fourth-largest. By the start of the Great Depression in 1929, the city's African-American population had increased to 120,000.
The Negro Soldier is a 1944 documentary film created by the United States Army during World War II. [1] It was produced by Frank Capra as a follow-up to his successful film series Why We Fight . The army used the film as propaganda to convince black Americans to enlist in the army and fight in the war.
The American Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration from countries where 2% of the total U.S. population, per the 1890 census (not counting African Americans), were immigrants from that country. Thus, the massive influx of Europeans that had come to America during the first two decades of the century slowed to a trickle.
Using interviews, photographs, and diary readings, it tells the story of the primarily black 761st Tank Battalion and 183rd Combat Engineers during World War II, including their experiences of racism in the United States and their involvement in the liberation of Nazi concentration camps.
New videos bring WW2 occupation diaries to life. ... The videos have been put together as part of Jersey Heritage's memoir project and focus on the last six months of the occupation in 1944 and 1945.
A major push factor for African immigration was the Diversity Visa Program and the 1980 Refugee Act, which facilitated the immigration of many Africans from conflict-affected regions such as Somalia and Eritrea. African immigrants are highly concentrated in states such as Texas, New York, and California, and they account for a significant ...
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