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Negroes facing unrest over army duties and jobs in defense
The article examines urban Negro resentment driven by army treatment and defense industry employment barriers. It cites race tensions at Forts Oswego Oswego Camp Davis Devens Blanding Lee Huachuca Bragg Upton and Fort Gordon Arkansas, noting AWOL cases and a feared national protest march led by A Philip Randolph to press for equitable defense jobs.
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New Republic
Harlem
Amsterdam Star News
Army
Fort Oswego
Camp Davis
Fort Devens
Blanding
Lee
Fort Huachuca
Fort Bragg
Ninety-fourth Engineers
Chicago
Detroit
Gordon
Arkansas
Robert C. Richardson Jr
North
South
United States Army
North Carolina
New York
George S. Schuyler
People’s Army
Baltimore
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Dixie
War Department
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Robert C. Weaver
Council of National Defense
William H. Hastie
NAACP
A. Philip Randolph
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Washington
National Negro Congress
Walter White
Pullman