Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), called for a march on Washington, D. C., to challenge the discrimination that African Americans were faced with in the national defense industry.

A. Randolph directed the March on Washington movement to end employment discrimination in the defense industry and a national civil disobedience campaign to ban segregation in the armed forces. The nonviolent protest and mass action effort inspired the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Striking out independently, he organized the March on Washington movement in 1941, which succeeded in pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802 banning discrimination in defense industries.

How did the efforts of A. Philip Randolph help further civil rights in the United States? He persuaded leaders to pass an order forcing employers to stop discriminating against workers on the basis of race. It expanded African Americans’ economic opportunities.

How did World War II impact African Americans? (5 points) It intensified efforts to protect segregation. It established a network of black-owned businesses. It expanded African Americans’ economic opportunities. It drove many African Americans back to agricultural work.

Throughout the war, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations worked to end discrimination in the armed forces. During this time African Americans became more assertive in their demands for equality in civilian life as well.

The economy, jobs, and racial discrimination remained top factors for black migration to the North. The advent of World War II contributed to an exodus out of the South, with 1.5 million African Americans leaving during the 1940s; a pattern of migration which would continue at that pace for the next twenty years.

World War II changed the lives of women and men in many ways. Employers attempted to preserve a measure of the prewar gender order by separating male and female workers and paying women less wages. Many Americans were also troubled by women who earned their own wages and spent time away from the supervision of family.

Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women.

Rosie the Riveter was an allegorical cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. Rosie the Riveter is used as a symbol of American feminism and women’s economic advantage.

But Rosie the Riveters in today’s workforce aren’t as well off: They earned barely 71 cents on the dollar of what men were paid, according to the BLS report. In the immediate post-war years, women workers only earned roughly 60 cents for every dollar a man made. Today, it’s 83 cents on the dollar.

The iconic image of Rosie the Riveter was explicitly aimed to change public opinion about women’s work, and the underlying theme of the campaign was to show that the social change required to bring women into the workforce was both a patriotic responsibility for women, and an opportunity for employers to support the …

All use it to send a message of female empowerment. Today, the now-famous image of Rosie the Riveter might evoke the heroic way women during World War II assumed jobs traditionally held by men–factory workers, taxi drivers and even soldiers–to help with the war effort.

Rosie the Riveter is both a romantic and a heroic figure from the World War II era. Yet despite her success, Rosie was forced off the factory floor when the war ended, her achievements buried in books, all her accomplishments wiped out of our consciousness.

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Naomi Parker Fraley

Rosie, along with endorsements from Eleanor Roosevelt, helped increase the number of women in the munitions and aviation industries, as well as the armed forces. By 1945, almost one in four American women held income-earning jobs.