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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.
By 1960, half of the African Americans in the South lived in urban areas, [13] and by 1970, more than 80% of African Americans nationwide lived in cities. [14] In 1991, Nicholas Lemann wrote: The Great Migration was one of the largest and most rapid mass internal movements in history—perhaps the greatest not caused by the immediate threat of ...
The 1943 Detroit race riot took place in Detroit, Michigan, from the evening of June 20 through to the early morning of June 22.It occurred in a period of dramatic population increase and social tensions associated with the military buildup of U.S. participation in World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort.
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.
U.S. and foreign born Sub-Saharan Africans are different and distinct from native-born African Americans, many of whose ancestors were involuntarily brought from West Africa to the colonial United States by means of the historic Atlantic slave trade. African immigration is now driving the growth of the Black population in New York City. [4]
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.
List of African-American firsts; Wesley A. Brown, first African American graduate of Annapolis (1949). Samuel L. Gravely Jr., first African American commissioned through the V-12 program (14 Nov 1944), first to attain flag rank (1971). Harriet Pickens, one of the first two female African American commissioned Navy officers (13 Nov 1944).
A 1934 photograph of a Rheinlander from the German Federal Archives.From 1933 Afro-Germans were persecuted by Nazi Germany. The postwar years in Germany brought new challenges, including an ultimately unknowable number of illegitimate children born from unions between occupying Black French, Moroccan, Algerian, and Black American soldiers and native German women. [9]