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The Double V Campaign
African Americans Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad
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2024
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The rousing story of the Double V Campaign, started during World War II to encourage Black Americans to fight for freedom overseas and at home.
When the United States entered World War II, young African Americans across the country faced a difficult dilemma. Why should they risk their lives fighting for freedoms in other nations that they did not have at home? The solution: fight two wars at once—for freedom abroad and freedom for Black people in America. A Double Victory!
In The Double V Campaign, Lea Lyondetails this fascinating, little-known part of American history. A young journalist, civil service employee, and aircraft plant cafeteria worker named James G. Thompson came up with the simple yet powerful Double V slogan to represent the fight for victory against the enemy abroad and the fight for victory against racial discrimination at home. Lyon shows how the popular Black-owned newspaper the Pittsburgh Courier, along with other Black newspapers, activists, the NAACP, and others, used the Double V Campaign to push for changes in the segregation and discriminatory practices in the military and defense industry, and how the campaign influenced and enhanced the Civil Rights Movement to come.
The Double V Campaign gave voice to African American communities throughout the war and inspired hundreds of thousands to continue speaking up against discrimination in the years that followed. It is a powerful story of fighting for what is right, of fighting for change and equality even when those in positions of power are telling you to stop, and the strength of a united voice to effect change.
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Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-8465-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-8466-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
152
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Acknowledgments No access
Chronology No access
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Introduction No access
1. James G. Thompson No access Pages 1 - 4
2. War, Injustice, and a Letter No access Pages 5 - 10
3. The Pittsburgh Courier No access Pages 11 - 18
4. The Black Press and the Fight for Justice No access Pages 19 - 24
5. The First March on Washington No access Pages 25 - 34
6. Forcing the President’s Hand No access Pages 35 - 44
7. Segregation in the Military No access Pages 45 - 50
8. Fighting the War Department and Jim Crow No access Pages 51 - 58
9. Rolling Out the Double V Campaign No access Pages 59 - 66
10. “Stop the Black Presses!” No access Pages 67 - 76
11. Journalism’s “Underground Railroad” No access Pages 77 - 84
12. African American Women Fight for Victory at Home and Abroad No access Pages 85 - 94
13. Slow but Steady Progress No access Pages 95 - 102
14. The Short but Effective Life of the Double V Campaign No access Pages 103 - 108
15. After the War the Fight on the Home Front Continues No access Pages 109 - 118
16. Ready for the Future No access Pages 119 - 126
