Should The United States Be Commicipation In The National Defence Program?
“Whereas it is the policy of the United States to encourage full participation in the national defence program by all citizens, regardless of race, creed, color, and national origin... Whereas there is evidence that available and needed workers are barred from employment engaged in defence production solely because of race, creed, color, or national origin, to the detriment of worker morale and of national unity.”
Order 8802, June 25, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In the United States during World War Two, Jim Crow laws were still in full effect, education was still segregated, and African Americans were still seen as lesser people. People believed that this was the way that things were supposed to be, although things were starting …show more content…
It was signed into law during 1943 by Roosevelt, stating that any soldier that was brought into service after Pearl Harbor was able to get veteran benefits. Many benefits that whites got from the GI bill; which provided free education, jobs, housing, healthcare, and et cetera, which helped them recover from the trauma of war, african americans could not receive because of where they lived. The bill itself was race-neutral, but with the Jim Crow laws in the south, it was very difficult for blacks to get housing, education, jobs and et cetera, which was not taken into account when the bill was created. There were more white veterans than black veterans, and the white veterans lived in mostly the north, which has more access to public resources unlike the black veterans that lived in mostly the south that does not have easy access to public resources for blacks. 90% of blacks in the 40s’ and the 50s’ had less than a high school education, which makes it more difficult to get higher level jobs, while only 75% of whites had less than a high school education. This later leads to a multigenerational gap of whites being more often prosperous than african americans. This gap is still in effect today, and will affect later generations. Even today, blacks have the highest percentage of their total population in poverty at 22% while whites only have a poverty rate of 8.8%. The poverty rate of the United States not taking account race is only 12%. Many blacks that enter poverty stay in poverty for
Order 8802, June 25, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In the United States during World War Two, Jim Crow laws were still in full effect, education was still segregated, and African Americans were still seen as lesser people. People believed that this was the way that things were supposed to be, although things were starting …show more content…
It was signed into law during 1943 by Roosevelt, stating that any soldier that was brought into service after Pearl Harbor was able to get veteran benefits. Many benefits that whites got from the GI bill; which provided free education, jobs, housing, healthcare, and et cetera, which helped them recover from the trauma of war, african americans could not receive because of where they lived. The bill itself was race-neutral, but with the Jim Crow laws in the south, it was very difficult for blacks to get housing, education, jobs and et cetera, which was not taken into account when the bill was created. There were more white veterans than black veterans, and the white veterans lived in mostly the north, which has more access to public resources unlike the black veterans that lived in mostly the south that does not have easy access to public resources for blacks. 90% of blacks in the 40s’ and the 50s’ had less than a high school education, which makes it more difficult to get higher level jobs, while only 75% of whites had less than a high school education. This later leads to a multigenerational gap of whites being more often prosperous than african americans. This gap is still in effect today, and will affect later generations. Even today, blacks have the highest percentage of their total population in poverty at 22% while whites only have a poverty rate of 8.8%. The poverty rate of the United States not taking account race is only 12%. Many blacks that enter poverty stay in poverty for