Segregation and Discrimination in the United States Military During World War Two

Tubman’s contribution to the Union had great affects to defeat the South in the Combahee River Region. Harriet Tubman was a slave, escaped through the Underground Railroad. She got information of where torpedoes might be. Harriet and Colonel Montgomery lead the expedition up the river. After it was all said and done, there were 700 slaves saved and the Union army destroyed nearly a million dollars in commissary stores, cotton and railroad. This tighten the rope even more by cutting another way the South got there supplies. It was a great blow to the military, even psychologically. This also marked the first and only time were a woman lead a military operation during the Civil War.

Harriet escaped to freedom despite leaving her family behind. Harriet risked her life many times leading hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. During the civil war, Tubman helped the Union Army by working as a nurse, spy, and many other jobs. After the war, she still devoted her life to helping former slaves move forward in life. Harriet Tubman was a very determined woman, she did not stop working for her people.

NMAAHC.edu states, “On June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman. became the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States when she and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 slaves in the Combahee Ferry Raid during the Civil War.” Not only was Harriet Tubman perfectly successful in using the Underground Railroad to lead slaves to freedom, she also became the first woman to lead a significant military mission, using this opportunity to free another seven hundred slaves. While Tubman’s contributions to the Abolition Movement were integral to the Abolition Movement in the past, they continue to be equally impactful today. Harriet Tubman has proven to be a very courageous woman, but her fearlessness is demonstrated once more in Ann Petry’s biography.

Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.

Her dedication to entitle everyone to freedom led to the escape of even more than 70 slaves because she provided 50-60 slaves instructions on how to escape, according to National Park Service.org. In further examination, a section on Intel.gov reads, “Tubman and Col. Montgomery led the raid at Combahee Ferry using her intelligence information to navigate around confederate mines’ place in the Combahee River.” During the Civil War, Tubman served in the Union army and was even dubbed the first African American woman to serve in the military. During this raid, Tubman was able to free an estimated 700 slaves on South Carolina plantations. Her contributions to the Civil War helped the Union Army achieve victory through her knowledge of the Confederate army’s routes and supplies.

Harriet Tubman is such an inspirational and important person to remember in life’s history. She fought against slavery by helping other slaves gain freedom since she returned to the South

During World War II, around one million black men served in the army. They were in different units to the white men. Riots and fights occurred when black men from northern America had to face the discrimination in the south during training. This lessoned peoples opinion of them, in a prejudice way. They were never allowed to join the Marines or the Air Corps, but this changed for the first time during the war due to the military needs. After the war, blacks began to challenge their status as second-class citizens. After their country fighting Nazi Germany, who killed six million Jews, and a fascist Italy, the people of America began to question the racism and

Harriet Tubman’s success in freeing hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad is recognized throughout the world. As an escaped slave herself, she still traveled to the southern states many times to free other slaves. A normal fugitive slave would not put themselves in danger and risk imprisonment, but Harriet Tubman did. Although Harriet Tubman is very popular and every school teaches her life story, not many realize that she had a spy ring and had enormous influence on the Union during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering intelligence from Confederate troops as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States national

As I see in the cartoons, there were race issues going on with blacks and jews being slaved by someone who discriminates against employees. In the I”ll Run Democracy, 1942 picture the man told them to stay in there Jim Crow tanks. Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation. The laws let discrimination and segregation keeps blacks and jews from getting jobs. In the other two pictures Listen Maestro and German Manicure you see Uncle Sam telling the war industry to keep making the blacks and whites work together to create a good sound. which came in context when he told him to keep playing them. The German Manicure picture showed Sam going to get his hand cut off by the U.S. Nazis and Anti semitism means they don’t like jews. All of this was going on internally that led to these other issues.

A women’s life in the south during the war was not easy. Women had no rights. Their husbands had to go away and most likely their children. Harriet Tubman is a great example of women trying to make a difference. She was one of the first women brave enough to stand against slavery.

Harriet Tubman is well known for a successful role in freeing many slaves through the Underground Railroad. Not many know the major effect she had on the Union Army as a Scout and a spy during the Civil War. Her bravery while helping slaves escape through the Underground Railroad and her assistance in gathering Confederate troops intelligence as a spy changed the history and made a great impact on the on the United States National Defense. Even though Harriet Tubman was a very skillful spy, she had many indicators that were missed while she was spied for intelligence and reported the material which were compromised to her handler.

Harriet Tubman was an important African American who ran away from slavery and guided runaway slaves to the north for years. During the Civil War she served as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that, she worked for the rights of blacks and women.

When America entered the Second World War, in 1942, they required Black men to fight. Many Black men fought for America in the war and did everything expected of them. Although they fought in different regiments to White Americans they were treated with respect, something many Black Americans had not experienced before. Whilst at war they noticed that many other countries- such as Britain- had integrated regiments without complications, so many wondered why America could not do the same. When

The decades during the second World War presented multiple forms of racial discrimination, affecting the functions and moods of domestic communities, including outside influences, social prejudice, and economic discrimination in both America and Europe. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the young narrator named Scout witnesses racial tensions in the glacial-paced town of Maycomb shake up the community, and create grand-scale cracks in the ground contrasting opinions and revealing hypocrisies hidden underneath as a certain court date inches closer. This legal case takes an alleged rape incident, applying racial undertones and showing the dominance of the white race in society, as well as the desperation and disadvantage of the black community in the face of this dominance. Scout’s impressionable, youthful mind is shaped by dipping her feet in both pools of social equality in her home and the sphere of public discrimination, leading her to challenge the status quo. The era of World War Two is immediately associated with racism as the rise of fascist dictators such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy implemented eugenic policies, resulting in communities of apartheid and even acts to the extent of mass murder as seen in the Holocaust. In both of these settings, day-to-day domestic life was influenced by convincing influences creating the racial situations to be socially accepted, as well as justified. The exploited victims of both backgrounds were slaves to the public

During World War II, America saw unprecedented levels of racial and ethnic prejudice in nations around the world. However, many people were unaware of the discrimination happening on America’s own front lines. Homosexual World War II veteran Ted Allenby once said, “What is unthinkable is fighting a war that is unnecessary,” (Terkel, 185). Groups including the Jewish, African Americans, the Japanese, and homosexuals were all victimized during World War II. These groups had vastly different experiences which are often times overlooked in United States history. Dealing with inequality on the home front, these minority soldiers were fighting a war not only against the Axis powers, but also against those who mistreated them.