{"id":563,"date":"2017-07-20T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/?page_id=563"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:38:47","slug":"impact-of-the-second-world-war-on-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schoolshistory.org.uk\/topics\/world-history\/america-c1945-1971\/impact-of-the-second-world-war-on-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of The Second World War on Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Impact of the Second World War on Civil Rights.<\/h3>\n

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African American Soldiers in the Second World War<\/p>\n

Sources<\/p>\n

Source: Lyrics to ‘Uncle Sam Says’ by Josh White<\/p>\n

Well, airplanes flying close to land and sea,
\nEverybody flying but a Negro like me.
\nUncle Sam says, ‘Your place is on the ground;
\nWhen I fly my airplanes, don’t want no Negro ’round.’<\/p>\n

The same thing for the Navy when ships goes to sea,
\nAll they got is a mess boy’s job for me.<\/p>\n

Source: VAhistorical.org<\/p>\n

The war years were tumultuous, but blacks sensed that out of this ferment change might come. After the bleak racism of the 1920s and the economic disaster of the 1930s, there was hope. African American newspapers conceived the “Double V” campaign\u2014victory over both America’s enemies abroad and over Jim Crow segregation at home. In this hopeful atmosphere the NAACP increased the percentage of registered black voters in the South from 2 to 12 percent. Membership in the NAACP itself increased from 18,000 before the war to nearly 500,000 at its close. Quotation from text on this page.<\/p>\n

Links<\/p>\n

BBC. Better Day Coming. Part of an excellent article tracing the development of the Civil Rights Movement in the USA.<\/p>\n

Living History. Very good article about the way that the war changed views about Civil Rights.<\/p>\n

VA History. Provides background information about the impact of war.<\/p>\n

Providence. Civil Rights in World War Two.<\/p>\n

America in the 1920s and 1930s<\/h3>\n

USA at the start of the 20th Century<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Causes of the Economic Boom<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Impact of Economic Growth in the 1920\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Agriculture in the 1920\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The \u201cRoaring\u201d Twenties<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Prohibition<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ku Klux Klan in the 20\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Causes of the Wall Street Crash<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Consequences of the Wall Street Crash<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Great Depression<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The New Deal<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Opposition to the New Deal<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Evaluation of the New Deal<\/a><\/p>\n

The United States c1945-1971<\/h3>\n

The Red Scare<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Impact of the Second World War on Civil Rights<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Civil Rights in 1950<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brown v Topeka Board of Education<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Little Rock High School<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Protest<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Martin Luther King Jnr<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nation of Islam and Malcolm X<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Black Panthers<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ku Klux Klan in the 1960\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0March on Washington<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0USA: Civil Rights Acts in the 1960s<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Immigration Act of 1965<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chicano movement and Civil Rights for Hispanic Americans<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0College Sit In\u2019s and Student Protests<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Women\u2019s Rights<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Native Americans and Civil Rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Impact of the Second World War on Civil Rights. African American Soldiers in the Second World War Sources Source: Lyrics to ‘Uncle Sam Says’ by Josh White Well, airplanes flying close to land and sea, Everybody flying but a Negro like me. Uncle Sam says, ‘Your place is on the ground; When I fly… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"parent":558,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-563","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t