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BLACK LABOR
AND RACE "San Francisco Bay Area in
World War II " Author, Dr. Cleveland Valrey The impact of war on
African Americans has been widely debated in the American press, the mass
media, and in public opinion. Did World War II represent a period of
unprecedented racial progress, or did America by its unequal treatment of
black people socially, in the workplace, and economically in the United
States; fail to honor its stated ideals of "making the world safe for
Democracy"? President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), in an address
assailing Nazi propaganda relevant to human problems and actual social
conditions asserted that: "The essence of our struggle today is that
man shall be free. Free to live, work, worship, and pursue his own goals.
There can be no real freedom for the common man without enlightened social
policies. In the last analysis, they are the stakes for which the
democracies are today fighting." Indeed, did the United States follow
through on FDR's assertion of freedom? Is there an issue of Black Labor
and Race today? Are we in new era of race and labor relations? |
Social Science : Ethnic Studies -
African American Studies - General
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