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We, Too, Are Americans: African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54 (Women in American History)
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by Megan Taylor Shockley
Sales Rank: 1952924
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List Price: $39.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
Published by: University of Illinois Press October 24, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0252028635
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0252028632
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Book Description
During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley looks at the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of industry--Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia--during the war and the decade that followed it, making a compelling case for viewing World War II as the crucible of the civil rights movement.
As demands on them intensified, the women working to provide American troops with clothing, medical supplies, and other services became increasingly aware of their key role in the war effort. A considerable number of the African Americans among them began to use their indispensability to leverage demands for equal employment, welfare and citizenship benefits, fair treatment, good working conditions, and other considerations previously denied them.
Shockley shows that as these women strove to redefine citizenship, backing up their claims to equality with lawsuits, sit-ins, and other forms of activism, they were forging tools that civil rights activists would continue to use in the years to come.
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