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Lecture 8: Gender and Race for Victory

 

Woman war worker.

Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration. http://bill.ballpaul.net/iaph/main.php?g2_itemId=1163

 

A hanging sign reads 'Colored Waiting Room'.

Colored Waiting Room. Rome, Georgia. September 1943. Esther Bubley, photographer. Credit: Library of Congress. http://bill.ballpaul.net/iaph/main.php?g2_itemId=1202

 

Japanese-American store closed.

Following evacuation orders, this store was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the "I AM AN AMERICAN" sign on the store front the after Pearl Harbor. Oakland, CA, April 1942. Dorothea Lange. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration. http://bill.ballpaul.net/iaph/main.php?g2_itemId=1178

 

Japanese-American internment center 1.

Japanese-American internment center 1. "This assembly center has been open for two days. Only one mess hall was operating today." Photograph shows line-up of newly arrived evacuees outside of this mess hall at noon. Tanforan Assembly Center. San Bruno, CA, April 29, 1942. Dorothea Lange. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration. http://bill.ballpaul.net/iaph/main.php?g2_itemId=1187