Home Front Battles: World War II Mobilization and Race in the Deep South

Home Front Battles: World War II Mobilization and Race in the Deep South
ISBN-10
0197655610
ISBN-13
9780197655610
Category
History
Pages
385
Language
English
Published
2024
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Charles C. Bolton

Description

Home Front Battles examines the many effects of World War II economic and military mobilization on the Deep South. It also underscores one of the primary home front battles, which began with the passage of the Selective Training and Service Act in 1940 and the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee in 1941, banning discriminatory military training and employment practices and making it clear that the federal government would be promoting the ideal of nondiscrimination as part of its wartime mobilization efforts. In the Deep South, where race relations were already tense, these directives and southern tradition clashed.

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