African-American History
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Some background information The Great Depression started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 and began the worst economic crisis in the history of the United States. Some of the people they interviewed were small children when the Civil War ended, but others were old enough to have experienced and remembered many aspects of slavery
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fleet sunk or damaged, the Navy raced to recover and repair what it could, and a massive salvage operation returned most of the damaged fleet to service in time to help defeat Japan. The RAF, no longer forced to defend innumerable airfields and defenses, was able to throw all of its firepower at the Luftwaffe, downing Germany's bombers faster than new ones could be supplied
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The text and video clips featured in this section present glimpses of the upheaval, uncertainty, terror and outrage experienced during the Japanese American Internment. Despite the government's own evidence that Japanese Americans posed no military threat, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal and incarceration of over 110,000 Japanese Americans
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The first class of 1,200 volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. While serving in the Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, they experienced discrimination and segregation but met the challenge and persevered
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