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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

As a nurse, she made a remedy she had learned while she lived in Maryland which helped save a numerous amount of people that suffered from dysentery. Tubman also offered her services to soldiers and newly freed slaves in South Carolina. As a spy, she would disguise herself as an old woman and wondered the streets of many towns under Confederate control. As Harriet Tubman wondered, she would encounter many people who were still enslaved. The slaves she encountered “willingly provided a wealth of information concerning troop placements and supply lines” (Harriet Tubman c. 1820 – 1913). Apart from her regular work as a spy, during one occasion, Tubman joined Colonel James Montgomery “in an assault on several plantations along the Combahee River” (Harriet Tubman: Underground Railroad “Conductor”, Nurse, Spy). During this mission, she helped over seven-hundred people gain their freedom. Harriet Tubman’s assistance during the Civil War contributed to the victory of the Union and resulted in the abolishment of slavery. Although the victory of the Union did not completely establish equality, it was a major step forward toward equality. Because of this, Americans in today’s society do not live segregated by law, are seen equal by the law, and the practice of slavery is no longer

After Tubman stopped her journey freeing slaves, she joined the union army, which she was a nurse, a cook, and a spy. According to America’s Library “Her experience leading slaves along the Underground Railroad was especially helpful because she knew the land well”. In other words, she knew what she was doing when she was assigned to design an escape route for trapped slaves and a rope to use for life-saving. On June 2, 1863, Tubman guided a troop of 150 black soldiers on a gunboat in South Carolina. The plan was to set free many slaves by ambushing slaveholders. The attack became known as the “Combahee River Raid” and freed more than 750 slaves. Another way how Tubman helped in the Civil War, is by nursing and cooking for white soldiers as

Guns firing, cannons booming, swords ringing, fists flying, and shouts rising all the while as Union soldiers dressed in bloodstained blue uniforms and Confederate forces clad with mud-caked grey attire colliding on a battlefield masked with gun smoke and dust. Images like this and others related often tend to appear in a person’s mind when someone mentions the words, “Civil War.” While this image has accuracy, soldiers had a large amount of time away from battle because fighting did not occur too often during the war. So then, what events and circumstances did the forces have to encounter when they remained off the combat lines? Questions like this one have a surplus of answers that contain various responses in several aspects. Throughout

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.