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The Double V campaign, initiated by the Pittsburgh Courier from February 1942, was a drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II. The idea of the Double V originated from a letter written by James G. Thompson on January 31, 1942.
On March 12, an Associated Press story named Miller as the sailor, citing the African-American newspaper Pittsburgh Courier; [18] additional news reports credited Lawrence D. Reddick with learning the name through correspondence with the Navy Department, with these news reports becoming influential aspects in giving the Double V campaign ...
Black newspapers created the Double V campaign to build black morale and head off radical action. Special posters and pamphlets were prepared for distribution in black neighborhoods. [277] A poster promoting cooperation between Americans of different races in the war effort. Most black women had been farm laborers or domestics before the war. [278]
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