To help ease the transition of returning servicemen to civilian life, Congress passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act in 1944 better known as...
(Hint: _ _ Bill of Rights)
What is GI Bill of Rights?
100
A civil rights leader who founded an interracial organization called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
What is James Farmer?
100
Another word for confinement?
(Hint: The first letter is "i")
What is internment?
200
Maya Angelou was a teenager living in San Francisco when the US got involved in WWII. What was her profession?
What is a writer and poet?
200
What did CORE stand for? (CORE confronted urban segregation in the North, founded by James Farmer.)
What is Congress of Racial Equality?
200
This pushed the government to compensate Japanese Americans sent to the camps for their lost of property.
What is the Japanese American Citizens League?
300
Women no longer had their jobs limited to being waitresses and house cleaners. They could no work in defense plants which offered...
What is better pay?
300
Where did African Americans move postwar for better jobs?
What is the Midwest?
300
What happened to the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor?
What is evicted and sent to camps?
400
During the war, what were mothers forced to do with their children?
What is leave them with neighbors
400
What were the anti-Mexican riots called?
What is a "zoot-suit"?
400
What did Ronald Reagan promise to all of the Japanese Americans?
(Hint: money)