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In this source it is a picture of hundreds of black people being shipped to Europe to fight the war. As you can see they are being very squished on the ship, and obviously the ship does not have enough space. They also were all in segregated groups. Even in a time of war when all of America needs to stick together they are segregating units. Also you can see that a lot of them look very happy. They were all very excited to go to war, while other blacks who stayed at home thought why should they fight a war for a country that isn't accepting people because of there race, when they aren't even accepted into their own country.

"In spite of years of inefficient and often corrupt bureaucratic management of Indian affairs, Native Americans stood ready to fight the "white man's war." American Indians overcame past disappointment, resentment, and suspicion to respond to their nation's need in World War II. It was a grand show of loyalty on the part of Native Americans and many Indian recruits were affectionately called "chiefs." Native Americans responded to America's call for soldiers because they understood the need to defend one's own land, and they understood fundamental concepts of fighting for life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Even the clannish Pueblo tribe, whose members exhibited a historical suspicion of the white world, contributed 213 men, 10 percent of their population of 2,205, to the armed forces. Wisconsin Chippewas at the Lac Oreilles Reservation contributed 100 men from a population of 1,700. Nearly all the able-bodied Chippewas at the Grand Portage Reservation enlisted. Blackfeet Indians enlisted in droves. Navajo Indians responded by sending 3,600 into military service; 300 lost their lives. Many volunteered from the Fort Peck Sioux-Assinibois Reservation in Montana, the descendants of the Indians that defeated Custer. The Iroquois took it as an insult to be called up under compulsion. They passed their own draft act and sent their young braves into National Guard units. There were many disappointments as well-intentioned Indians were rejected for the draft. Years of poverty, illiteracy, ill- health, and general bureaucratic neglect had taken its toll. A Chippewa Indian was furious when rejected because he had no teeth. "I don't want to bite 'em," he said, "I just want to shoot 'em!" Another Indian, rejected for being too fat to run, said that he had not come to run, but to fight."

In this source it also shows how the Natives also thought that they weren't fighting for themselves they were fighting a "white-man's war'. They were very loyal because they responded to the help needed of world war two to protect their land, and for the motives of the country. They were very disappointed when the Indians were rejected for stupid reasons. One Indian was rejected for being "too fat to run" and he responded with "I had not come to run, but to fight."

"When voluntary measures failed, Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority. It resettled 100,000 Japanese-Americans in ten isolated internment camps scattered across seven western states. Called relocation camps, they resembled minimum security prisons. In these concentration camps, American citizens who had committed no crimes were locked behind barbed wire, crowded into ramshackle wooden barracks where they lived one family to a room furnished with nothing but cots and bare light bulbs, forced to endure bad food, inadequate medical care, and poorly equipped schools."

In my opinion the Japanese had it the worst during World War Two. If you weren't with the Americans being a spy, you were scattered across the country to go to internment camps. Japanese had to leave there homes, sold or not, and go to these camps with whatever they could take. They would be fed, and housed, but were watched 24/7. They were schooled also, but poorly, and had bad medical care. This was a huge crime in my eyes because regular Americans, without committing any crimes were basically jailed and kept behind barbed wire fences.

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1. In the 1930s, the U.S. military was a racially segregated institution, reflecting the legal and defacto segregation in much of the United States 2. In the army, African-American soldiers served in all-black units 3. The U.S. Army Air Corps dealt with the fact of American segregation by refusing to accept African-Americans into its ranks at all rather than create separate units or facilities 4. There were only 125 licensed African-American pilots in the country because they did not have the opportunity to learn to fly in the military and private flying lessons were too expensive for most to afford 5. Lack soldiers were generally restricted from combat, but the realities of war would soon blur the lines of race 6. Negros were excluded from the draft 7. the Navy remained racially segregated in training and in most service units 8. In 1941 Randolph threatened President Roosevelt with a 100,000-person march on Washington, D.C., to protest job discrimination. In response, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in defense jobs or the government