How Did The Wartime Boom Affect The Economy

The Wartime Boom help shaped the history and growth in Oakland and the American history for that matter. This economic boom brought World War II the much-needed relief from the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Wartime Boom had a great impact the city of Oakland in particular: Oakland’s productive port, the largest seaport in Northern California, and its strategic location at the terminal of major rail lines, made the city an important center of goods production. The wartime industrial growth led to a surge in the population: there were almost 100,000 new Oakland residents between 1940-1945, and the 1945 special census revealed the population of Oakland at an all-time high of 405,301 residents. Most of the new residents came from out of state, like rural areas, a lot of residents was black and white from the southwestern states. The government created prime and subcontracts that were made just for shipbuilding that exceeded $7.8 million in Oakland. That led to thousands of civilians to obtain employment on the different military bases in the city. Because of the employment boom, the unemployment rate decreases to about 2% in 1944. Another changed that occurred because of the wartime boom was women employment. Women employment increased to 35% in Oakland from 27% during this time, they
Although Charlotte “voluntarily” desegregated its schools in 1957, only 42 of 18,000 black students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system attended majority-white schools. By the end of the 1968-1969 school year, two-thirds of black students still attended schools, which were more than 99% black. These predominantly black schools, in most cases, received lower levels of funding and had less qualified teachers. Consequently, the quality of education for blacks was less than that for whites, helping to perpetuate a racial gap in academic and economic