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A. Philip Randolph
-In 1940’s, he led the march on the Washington movement. The Double V Campaign encouraged men to enlist in WWII and they were motivated to demand rights for their sacrifices. He was also a leader in the African American civil rights movement, the American labor movement, and socialist parties.
-Discrimination was banned in the defense industries during WWII because of the march on Washington led by Randolph → The march convinced Roosevelt to issue the Executive Order 8802 in 1941, banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II.
-Referenced on Pg. 163 of Reading-Riddle of the Zoot
-Protested racial discrimination in employment and in the military
Bebop
-A style of jazz music that represented defiance during the 1940s. Did not exclusively say it was a product of defiance, but helped toward racial tensions.
-Characterized by improve and fast tempo. Dances danced to Bebop included the lindy hop and the apple jack emerged-both also seen as resistive
- double v double time (time refers to the speed in bebop)
-A type of music that focused on asymmetry and dissonance, made so white artists couldn't play it (involved technical mastering), lots of improve that moved away from sheet music. Very similar to Jimi Hendrix taking an American style (jazz) and transforming it to fit a new culture with the wave of immigrants. Often played in clubs where zoot suitors loitered, acted as a form of musical protest and resistance against the white mainstream jazz. Birth of a new kind of jazz, one that symbolizes youth and change within American society. shifted focus from white/swing → black/bebop
Bracero Program
“An emergency farm labor plan that was extremely successful at meeting its goal of supplying cheap labor.”
-After WWII there were several “braceros” (manual laborers) that stopped working as farm laborers on their own