Internment, the Bracero Program, and Minority Wartime Experiences
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 10 Executive Order 9066 authorized zones, not a named ancestry Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, authorized military commanders to designate exclusion areas and remove people from them. Its text did not name Japanese ancestry. Western Defense Command orders nevertheless used that authority to remove nearly […]
The Double V Campaign and the Second Great Migration
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 10 Defense mobilization renewed Black migration War plants expanded in northern and western cities while mechanization, low wages, and racial violence pushed families from the South. Black populations grew in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, and other centers. This Second Great Migration extended beyond the earlier […]
