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Monday, September 30, 2024
Sailors
These African-American sailors where photographed showering after work in 1945. Wayne Miller took the photo on Guan where the men were used as laborers to unload suppy ships.
African Americans were only allowed to serve as porters, cooks, stevedores and in construction battalions in the US Navy. Construction work and stevedoring were endless, difficult and thankless undertakings. Some abuses were so bad stevedores would mutiny. In 1942 under intense pressure from President Roosevelt and the NAACP, the US Navy opened ratings to African American sailors. In March 1944 the US Navy commissioned its first African American officers who were known as the Golden 13, a few months later, and the US Navy commissioned its first two African American women as officers. Full de-segregation was a slow process ultimately put into force in the armed forces by the Executive Order in of President Harry Truman in 1948. Truman had been disgusted by some of the abuses reported to him as both Vice-President and President, and of African Americans veterans putting up with hostility at home and denial of burials in a segregated America. Sad to see that in the USA of today, many people want to take us back to this crap of un-American abusive racism….:(
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Ah! Showers, this place always makes me dream...
ReplyDeleteAnd many others as well.
DeleteAfrican Americans were only allowed to serve as porters, cooks, stevedores and in construction battalions in the US Navy. Construction work and stevedoring were endless, difficult and thankless undertakings. Some abuses were so bad stevedores would mutiny. In 1942 under intense pressure from President Roosevelt and the NAACP, the US Navy opened ratings to African American sailors. In March 1944 the US Navy commissioned its first African American officers who were known as the Golden 13, a few months later, and the US Navy commissioned its first two African American women as officers. Full de-segregation was a slow process ultimately put into force in the armed forces by the Executive Order in of President Harry Truman in 1948. Truman had been disgusted by some of the abuses reported to him as both Vice-President and President, and of African Americans veterans putting up with hostility at home and denial of burials in a segregated America.
ReplyDeleteSad to see that in the USA of today, many people want to take us back to this crap of un-American abusive racism….:(