1. Warm up What ethnicity do you think the grocery store owner is?
Why do you think this store owner put this sign up?
What does it tell you about some of the white Americans who lived in this neighborhood?

2. New Economic Opportunities
African Americans faced discrimination
“Double V”
Victory at home
Against discrimination
Victory abroad
Against the Axis
Led by A. Philip Randolph

3. New Economic Opportunities
A. Philip Randolph presented FDR with a list of demands to end discrimination in federal programs
Executive Order fair hiring practices in federal govt jobs

4. New Economic Opportunities
NAACP and CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) continue to fight for African Americans
Use non-violence to protest segregation
Bracero Program
Brought Mexican workers to work on farms

5. Discrimination Minority migration leads to racial violence
1943 Detroit- a riot broke out between blacks and whites
34 die, federal troops have to stop the rioting
Whites were upset that black were moving into neighborhoods near them
At the time, white commissions attributed the cause of the riot to black hoodlums and youths. The NAACP identified deeper causes: a shortage of affordable housing, discrimination in employment, lack of minority representation in the police, and white police brutality

6. Workers On the Move Mexican Americans faced similar problems
Zoot-suit Riots (June 1943):
Mobs would roam LA searching for these zoot suiters and attack them
Language issues and poverty made them stand out
Local papers framed the racial attacks as a vigilante response to an immigrant crime wave, and police generally restricted their arrests to the Latinos who fought back.

7. The US Government Mistreats Minorities
Exec Order 9066
The Pres. Could declare any area as a war zone
Japanese-Americans forced to sell their land, leave the west coast
Racism, lack of representation, and fear are the reasons

8. The US Government Mistreats Minorities
These Japanese were placed into internment camps
Food supply, education, and health care were lacking in these camps
Korematsu v. US- Supreme Court stated that this was all legal during war

9. Supporting the War Effort
War raised debt by $200 billion+
Americans paid taxes and bought war bonds to help pay for the war
The OPA would:
set price maximums and control wages

10. The Media Boosts Morale
Office of War Information (OWI) used to boost civilian morale
Used media to remind people why we are fighting
Pop culture stars volunteered time to promote the war