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WWII Research and Symposium Assignment MADV
 * Minorities were not treated equal during the World War II era (workforce and military).**
 * 1) Because of the attacks from the Japanese, new laws were created that denied the Japanese the right to become citizens, to own land, and to marry outside of their race.
 * 2) Many bosses denied Asians and African Americans choice jobs.
 * 3) Native Americans were to live on reservations, seperated from society.
 * 4) The Executive Order 9066 was passed by President Roosevelt that allowed the War Department to have "military areas" and to exclude "any and all persons" from these areas. Even though this wasn't directly towards a particular group, it relocated and incarcerated more that 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast. 2/3 of these were American citizens
 * 5) African Americans felt as if America was contradicting themselves because they were talking about getting away from discrimination, yet they were doing it to the minority groups in the armed forces by keeping them separate from the white soldiers.
 * 6) Even when African Americans would join the army, they would get noncombat roles because they were usually given to the White soldiers.
 * 7) Minorities, such as Native Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans did join the armed forces. But they would never get as high as positions as did the Whites. If they for some reason did, they White soldiers would move up in the ranks why the minorities would basically never move up.
 * 8) America created the War Relocation Authority (WRA) which controlled and watched the relocation of the Japanese Americans. Theyt were to watch over the concentration like places. The governors said that they wanted "nothing short of a concentration camp" because these Japanese Americans were being watched by armed guards.
 * 9) During World War II, there were less that 4,000 African Americans serving in the military.Of this 4,000, there were only 12 of them that were officiers. African Americans were also passed over by what was usually an all White draft board. This was what you could think of as a "civil war" in the military.
 * 10) In the military, minorities usually got stuck with the "dirty work", including working at the ship yard, maving materials, house-work, and anything else that didn't involve combat.

This is a picture of the Manzanar Relocation Center where thousands of Japanese Americans were placed after the Executive Order 9066. This can be compared to a work camp during the Holocaust because we're trying to seperate Japanese Americans from the rest of society. This explains my position that minority groups were treatly unequal because this is segregation, dicrimination, and flat out wrong. This quote reveals what the true attitude towards Japanese Americans was.
 * Primary Sources:**

"...provide for residents of any such area who are excluded therefrom, such transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations as may be necessary..."

This quote, said by President Roosevet in his Executive Order 9066, is an example of how he tried to cover up the discriminatory acts that were being committed aganist Japanese Americans. They were excluded from society in the "work camp" like areas, but he also says to provide them with food, shelter, and other things to make it seem like they were there because of the war, and not because Roosevelt made them go. This is only one of the ways that inequality was brought among minorities.

"Soldiers were fighting the world's worst racist, Adolph Hitler, in the world's most segregated army,"

This quote was said by National Geographic's Stephen Ambrose. This explains how even when America was battling a racist and discrimination war, they are also racist. She also said that this was a two army fight because there was the "white army", who were the ones who would go and actually to the fighting, and the minority army, who would do the dirty work of cargo shiftin, cooking, and small things like that. This quote explains how the inequality of minorities actually negatively impacted the country as a whole.