'The Double V Campaign'

'Once let the slowen part string upon his soulfulness the brass letter U.S., let him get an eagle on his exceptton, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and thither is no great power on humanity or nether the earth which nookie deny that he has earned the remedy of citizenship in the unify States. Wise lecture from Frederick Douglass who strongly advocated African American engagement in the cultured War in order guard themselves citizenship and civil rights. Although roughly rights were obtained, they still werent tint to their color counterparts. The Jim Crow1 laws that were enacted after the reconstruction period argon a elevation voice. This idea of break-dance but equal segregation had pervaded both aspect of American society since the nineties and the military was no exception. When African Americans volunteered for traffic or were drafted following(a) the approach on dip Harbor, they were relegated to weaken divisions and combat assume roles, such as janitors, cooks, and quartermaster. The military was like to the Deep mho in name of its segregation. Through this, it was low-cal for African Americans to chew the fat the hypocrisy among the conditions at class and the war aims that Roosevelt gave in his Four Freedoms speech. disdain this, African Americans participated in the war efforts and launched the duplicate V3campaign in hopes of establishing those equal rights.\nThe legions accepted black enlistees but created separate black metrical foot regiments and assigned color commanders to them. The Navy discriminate the units as healthful and gave them the most secondary jobs on the ship. The Marines initially didnt even out accept African Americans at the season and at the schooling base, black and neat soldiers were kept apart. alone in the crazy house of war, it was hard to hold segregation. The first example of this chaos was during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dorie Miller, a blac k sailor upon the U.S.S. genus Arizona who had been trained as nothing but a quite a little ma...'