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Klaput who is 98, is one of many women still living who were known as a Rosie the Riveter during World War II. She worked at Glenn L. Martin Company, an aircraft business in Maryland and carried ...
For some time after World War II, the garment industry would continue to relocate to lower-wage areas, seeking Latina women in need of work. Societal effects. For American Latinas during World War II, the transition from domestic life into working life, or from less intensive jobs into higher intensity positions, had major societal effects ...
The Tuskegee Airmen / t ʌ s ˈ k iː ɡ iː / [1] was a group of African American military pilots (fighter and bomber) and airmen who fought in World War II.They formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).
Rosie the Riveter" was an iconic symbol of the American homefront in WWII and a departure from restrictive, "feminine", gender roles due to wartime necessity. The World Health Organization states "As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time." [133] Sociologists generally regard gender as a social construct.
Connie Field is an American film director known for her work in documentaries.. Her works include The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980), Forever Activists (1990), Freedom on My Mind (1994) and Have You Heard from Johannesburg (2010).
"During World War II, the National War Labor Board was the only large governmental agency that both used interest group representatives as formal members of collegial bodies and at the same time gave those bodies quasi-legislative, quasi-judicial, and administrative power." —Allan R. Richards, University of New Mexico, 1952 [41]
In Willie Gillis: Food Package, 1941, he toted a care package. [2] Ten subsequent covers depicted Gillis in a variety of roles: at church in uniform, holding his hat on his lap; the soldier on K.P. duty; the son carrying on the family tradition of military service; a still life of Gillis's family photographs; and two fighting-mad girls, holding pictures of Gillis that he had sent each of them ...