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Negroes Make Gains in War Effort and Employment
The article argues that Negro progress in wartime exceeds past decades due to leadership and political pressure, noting integration in the Navy with a Black captain and officers aboard Booker T. Washington. It highlights federal efforts to employ and train Black workers, desegregation in defense industries, and tensions from lynchings and Southern discrimination, while urging continued democratic commitment at home.
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Oswald Garrison Villard
Stanley High
Pearl Harbor
Washington
Maritime Commission
Navy
Booker T. Washington
Edward Macauley
United States
West
Knox
I Pierce
Patterson
Nelson
WPB
McNutt
Manpower Commission
Committee On Fair Employment Practices
Weaver
Commission
FBI
Wall Street Journal
Boston
San Francisco
California
Chicago
Henry J. Kaiser
Oregon
New York City
William H. Smathers
New Jersey
OCD
OPA
NHA
Mississippi
India
England
South
New Statesman
Nation