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Lecture 8: Gender and Race for Victory


Woman war worker.
 Woman war worker.Description: Riveter at Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA.Credit: National Archives and Records Administration http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/0000016f.htm

Colored Waiting Room.
 Colored Waiting Room.Description: Colored Waiting Room. Rome, Georgia. September 1943. Esther Bubley, photographer.Credit: Library of Congress http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/0000017c.htm

Japanese-American store closed.
 Japanese-American store closed.Description: "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://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000174.htm

Japanese-American internment center 1.
 Japanese-American internment center 1.Description: 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://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/fi/00000177.htm
 

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