National Archives at Atlanta

BROWSE ITEMS TAGGED "AFRICAN AMERICANS"

48 Items

Gilbertsville Dam July 9, 1942 View	Complaints were made to the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice regarding conditions at the Gilbertsville Dam... Tags: African Americans \| Dam Construction \| Kentucky \| World War II
Negro Carpenters 1943-1944 View	John W. Reed, a concerned citizen, exchanged correspondence with David E. Lilienthal and Gordon Capp of TVA regarding... Tags: African Americans \| Labor \| Tennessee \| World War II
Women at Milan Arsenal 1943 View	The Milan Ordnance Depot and the Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant merged in 1943 to form the Milan Ordnance Center. In 1945... Tags: African Americans \| Ordnance Facilities \| Tennessee \| Women \| World War II
Memphis Train Depot ca. 1944 View	Despite their service in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, black soldiers were still required to purchase train... Tags: African Americans \| Railroads \| Tennessee \| World War II
Worker Leaves Job for North June 19, 1943 View	An African American worker leaves the South to work in the North and does not want to return despite his apparent violation ... Tags: African Americans \| Labor \| Ohio \| Tennessee \| World War II
Gadsden Ordnance Plant ca. 1942 View	Two workers at the Gadsden Ordnance Plant manufacture artillery shells... Tags: African Americans \| Alabama \| Ammunition \| Ordnance Facilities \| World War II
Augusta Arsenal 1942-1945 View	Photograph shows both African American and white workers laboring on same factory line in Augusta, Georgia during WWII... Tags: African Americans \| Georgia \| Ordnance Facilities \| World War II
AFL and Black Carpenters January 15, 1943 View	This press release, dated January 15, 1943, announces that the Southern Representative of the American Federation of Labor... Tags: African Americans \| Georgia \| Labor \| World War II
Enforcing Segregation February 11, 1944 View	William E. Dunn, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Industrial Trades Association, sent this letter to the FEPC... Tags: African Americans \| Georgia \| World War II
black Mathematician September 18, 1944 View	Theoretical physicist Edward Teller, who would later be known as "the father of the hydrogen bomb," wrote this letter... Tags: African Americans \| Columbia University \| New Mexico \| New York \| World War II