On February 10, 1957 the Birmingham Post-Herald headline story was “Beds Scarce For Negroes in Hospitals.” Arthur Bailey, the administrator of Jefferson-Hillman hospital said that they had been forced to turn colored people away up to two weeks before this articled was printed. Due to Jim Crow Laws black people were unable to receive equal treatment in the medical community...
The contents of the primary source that relate to the secondary sources being used here are the improvement of the economy and how adult education can lead to community development. Economic factors are of great importance in community development. A main point in the economy section is that more and more people are becoming specialized in one skill and therefore becoming interdependent on other...
The Role of Women in Nazi Germany
Nazis are often thought of as men, but many women contributed to the Nazi nation in Germany according to this newsletter in Nachrichtendienst der Reichsfrauenführung Sonderdien. This newsletter was sent to Nazi women who were leaders. These statements are meant to encourage women working at home and let women know what is expected of them during...
Beyond racist caricatures, Japanese influence in American comic books did not explode until post World War II. Though Japanese characters appeared as racialized villains before the Pearl Harbor bombing of 1941, racist depictions exploded in war comics after the attack [1]. This hatred left Japanese characters consistently portrayed as “ghastly yellow demons... or buck toothed little monkeys with...
All was quiet at the home of William Neal Brown until a broadcaster came over the radio shouting Pearl Harbor has been attacked, Pearl Harbor has been attacked! It was at that moment on December 7, 1941 he decided to volunteer his services for the armed forces of the United States. Brown was living in Newport News, which was a shipyard that built battleships and aircraft carriers to supply the pacific...
“All day long whether rain or shine, she’s part of an assembly line, she’s making history, working for victory!” For the first time, in 1942, women were making history while being recognized for it, by working in the factories keeping our nation running strong, without skipping a beat, while the men were fighting World War II. Propaganda was used to influence women to join the workforce. ...
Propaganda from the War Manpower Commission, a U.S. employment service, promoted women joining the labor force during World War Two. In Mobile, Alabama, the Commission distributed a pamphlet using the fear of Hitler as motivation to work, asserting that as long women helped “build ships, more ships to transport our men, tanks, planes and munitions” Hitler wouldn’t “come to our shores.” ...
In January of 1942 in the brink of World War II(WWII), Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson ordered that the city of Detroit to stop making automobiles for citizens and start military production for the United States. Factories stopped production and began to make weapons, planes, trucks, and tanks for the Allied forces. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered citizens to unite and help our...
A significant part of the development of modern America can be attributed to the rise of the steel industry. Henry Bessemer developed a faster method to manufacture steel in 1864, reducing the production time from seven days to thirty minutes. Bessemer’s work was revolutionary. After that, steel was quickly integrated into modern society. At the end of the Civil War, top railroad executives...
World War II brought industrialized nations into combat with one another on an unprecedented scale, and to keep the people of a nation willing to fight, it was important to keep a steady supply of food and munitions coming to its soldiers. More importantly, the morale and efficiency of troops was dependant on the fact that these food and munitions were particularly good. For this reason,...