Double victory
Subtitle: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
By: Cheryl Mullenbach
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781569768082
Subjects: Race relations; African American women; Employment; Civil rights; World War, 1939-1945; History; African Americans; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War workers: "Negroes cannot be accepted"; title: Political activists: "I am not a party girl, I want to build a movement"; title: In the military: "will all the colored girls move over on this side"; title: Volunteers: "back the attack"; title: Entertainers: "we don't take your kind".