Final Report, June 28, 1946


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"Report on the Committee's wartime activities, and on the present status of minority group workers ... the Committee shall investigate, make findings and recommendations, and report to the President with respect to discrimination in industries engaged in work contributing to the production of military supplies or to the effective transition to a peacetime economy. The Committee's first report, published in June, 1945, covered in detail the major part of its wartime experience. In its present final report the Committee has endeavored to draw together its entire five years' experience, in the belief that it will serve as a guide to the solution of the continuing problem of employment discrimination."--Page v.










Final Report, June 30, 1946


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Final Report


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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas


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For Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II, unprecedented new employment opportunities contrasted sharply with continuing discrimination, inequality, and hardship.







Japanese American Celebration and Conflict


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A history of the struggles over identity within the Japanese American community, using ethnic festivals to reveal the conflicts from the 1930s (a period of wealthy Japanese enclaves) through the WWII internment to the late 20th century influx of investment from Japan.







Intelligent and Effective Direction


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«Intelligent and Effective Direction» examines the Fisk University Race Relations Institute from 1944 to 1969. Conceptualized and organized by African American sociologist Charles S. Johnson, this Institute brought together an interracial group of scholars, social, civic, and religious leaders, activists, and others to battle for civil rights. Scholarship and dialogue were the primary methods of protest and activism. «Intelligent and Effective Direction» bridges what we know about the efforts of those moving away from a Jim Crow segregated South with the efforts of those moving toward the famed civil rights movement.