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Civil Rights Movement - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights Movement
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WW2
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African Americans in WW2
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Learned new skills, met new people
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At training camps, African Americans found themselves in segregated units with less rights than POW's
In the field, they were relegated to menial jobs like cooks
Dorie Miller, a mess attendent, was on a battleship when the Pearl Harbour attack happened
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However, the Navy only named him in the paper and "an unnamed Negro mess-man"
Was eventually nominated for the Congressional medal of honour, thanks to NAACP
Despite challenges, war gave African Americans a look at the world outside US
Many soldiers came from rural areas, met people who did not see colour and there was no segregation