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What are civil liberties?
How did the war affect the U.S. government’s
position in protecting civil liberties?
civil liberty
–noun. Usually, civil liberties.
1. the freedom of a citizen to exercise
customary rights, as of speech or assembly,
without unwarranted or arbitrary interference
by the government.
2. such a right as guaranteed by the laws of a
country, as in the U.S. by the Bill of Rights.
Activator, agenda, and objective (10
minutes)
 Uneven impacts of war: African
Americans (15 minutes)
 WWII DBQ (45 minutes)
 DBQ rubric grading (15 minutes)
 Legacy of WWII (time permitting)
 Exit ticket and homework (5 minutes)
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Different groups experienced the war
differently:
Women – Increased role in industry;
dichotomy between Rosie the Riveter and
Betty Grable (challenging and reinforcing
gender stereotypes).
Latinos – Zoot Suit Riots; Bracero Program.
Japanese Americans – Internment
African Americans – Segregated units;
increased political demands.
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Struggled against Jim
Crow laws in the South
and discrimination in
the North.
With Lend-Lease
program in 1941
industries needed labor
yet 1 in every 5 African
Americans were
unemployed.
Some progress: opened
defense plants to
everyone regardless of
“race, creed, color, or
national origin.”
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First Black man to
enlist in the Marines.
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Strictly segregated
units in the army
prevented white and
black soldiers from
fighting together.
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Tuskegee Airmen
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154th Regiment
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“ ‘You know we don’t
 “It is a mockery of
serve coloreds here,’ the
wartime goals to fight
man repeated… we
overseas against fascism
ignored him, and just
only to come back to
stood there inside the
the same kind of
door, staring at what we
discrimination and
had come to see – the
racism here in this
German prisoners of war
country.”
who were having lunch at
› Alexander J. Allen, 1942.
the counter… This was
really happening. It was
no jive talk. The people of
Salina would serve these
enemy soldiers and turn
away black American
GIs.”
› Lloyd Brown, 1943
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Double V Campaign:
victory over the Axis
and victory over racism
and discrimination in
the U.S.
Congress for Racial
Equality (CORE)
founded in Chicago,
1942.
Organized restaurant
sit-ins and other nonviolent protests.
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“If Negro men can
carry guns for Uncle
Sam surely they can
drive milk wagons for
Bowman Dairy.”
› Protest sign help
outside a Chicago
milk company, 1941.
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Double V Campaign:
victory over the Axis
and victory over racism
and discrimination in
the U.S.
Congress for Racial
Equality (CORE)
founded in Chicago,
1942.
Organized restaurant
sit-ins and other nonviolent protests.
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“If Negro men can
carry guns for Uncle
Sam surely they can
drive milk wagons for
Bowman Dairy.”
› Protest sign help
outside a Chicago
milk company, 1941.
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How did the Second World War and the
bombing of Pearl Harbor change the
U.S. Federal government’s position in
protecting Civil Liberties? In your answer
be sure to address the political, social,
and economic factors leading to the
change in policy.
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A: Atlantic Charter (1941)
B: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Speech to Chicago Civil
Liberties Committee (1940)
C: Office of War Information poster (1942)
D: U.S. Army Guidelines (1942)
E: Map of U.S. Internment Camps (1942)
F: Supreme Court Case (1943)
G: Newspaper Carton (1942)
H: FDR Radio Address (1942)
I: Supreme Court Case (1946)
J: “Trouble in Philadelphia” (1946).
You have 45 minutes to write.
 Remember: you must include a WHOLE
LOT of outside information, so write an
essay that uses the documents to
support it.
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Begin reading ch. 23 on the Cold War for
tomorrow and Tuesday.