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Social Change
By 1943, six million women had entered the work force, and nearly half of them were working in defense plants. LIFE magazine paid tribute to the mythical "Rosie the Riveter" as "neither drudge nor slave but the heroine of a new order." Women would take advantage of their newly found economic freedom. And men previously touched by segregation returned from military service and no longer accepted unequal treatment.
By 1943, six million women had entered the work force, and nearly half of them were working in defense plants. LIFE magazine paid tribute to the mythical "Rosie the Riveter" as "neither drudge nor slave but the heroine of a new order." Women would take advantage of their newly found economic freedom. And men previously touched by segregation returned from military service and no longer accepted unequal treatment.
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Sailors and their dates enjoy a night out at O'Reilly's on 3rd Ave. in New York, NY. August 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-006941-E)
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Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .
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Asako Tokuno, after the war, in her family's nursery
Source: Asako Tokuno
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Women workers on the B-17 production line at Douglas Aviation Co., Long Beach, California. October 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USE6-D-007812)
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Second Lieutenant Mildred L. Osby of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Washington, D.C. November 1942.
Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-010677)
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Barbara Covington was born on February 16, 1924 in Sacramento. Her mother's family came to Oroville, California in the 1870s. Her father James William Covington had been president of the NAACP in Sacramento in the 1920s, but died when Covington was 3-1/2 years old. Covington moved with . . .
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There was wonderful patriotism and people willing to fight.
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Nursing recruitment poster.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-135)
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Of Mexican descent, Bill Lansford noticed very little discrimination growing up.
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Daniel Inouye, the son of a Japanese immigrant, was born in Hawaii, September 7, 1924. He was a seventeen year old high school senior on December 7, 1941, and witnessed first hand the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As a Red Cross volunteer he helped tend to the many civilian . . .
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For maybe the first time in U.S. history, every citizen seemed involved in the war effort.
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Emily Lewis was born in Paducah, Kentucky on April 5th, 1920, and grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1924. She graduated from nursing school in 1941 and after Pearl Harbor, enlisted in the armed forces. She was called to duty in June of 1942, and was initially sent to . . .
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Emma Belle Petcher was born March 27, 1923 in Millry, Alabama and when she graduated from high school in 1942, decided to go to Mobile in search of work. She received a high score on a mechanical aptitude test, and was put into a nine month training program for maintaining . . .
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After graduating from high school, she headed for Mobile.
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By 1943, six million women had entered the work force, and nearly half of them were working in defense plants.
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A female welder at Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co. in Mobile, AL.
Source: The University of South Alabama Archives (C-24, 075 ADDSCO)
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Poster applauding the working woman, done by Packer for the Office of War Information.
Source: National Archives (NWDNS-44-PA-911)
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Jeroline Green was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas. After high school, she enrolled in junior college for a time, and in the summer of 1943, decided to visit a friend who was living in Sacramento. She arrived in August, intending to stay for a few weeks. Instead, she quickly . . .
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John Hope Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History in the Law School at Duke University. He is a native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University. He received the A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from . . .
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Phillips worked at the government nursery school for children of the women who labored at the Mobile shipyards.
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