The study of africanamerican life and history. Sandra bolzenius, what was the Womens Army Corps . The Womens Army Corps or the wac, ill be using that acronym to describe them, and members of the Womens Army Corps, it was established in 1942. The military, the army was fighting a two front war and needed more troops, so they enlisted women for the first time in its history to make sure they were able to fill the jobs that the men were leaving so they could go to the front. And there have been many books on the mistreatment of africanamerican soldiers during world war ii, but you wrote about four enlisted female soldiers. Who were they . First of all, im very glad that you mentioned that because so often the books are on the officers and theyre on the white wacs who served, but very few on black enlisted women so i wrote about the four women that i mentioned here, part of the 6,500 contingent of black women who enlisted during the war. Pioneers of the wac and they had the same reasons th
Theften the books are on officers and theyre on the very wacs who served, but few on black enlisted women so i wrote about the four women that here, theyre part of the 6,500 contingent of black war, who enlisted in the pioneers of the wac and they had the same reasons that other for joining. They wanted to learn new skills. Inck women were engaged service occupations, cleaning, laundry work and they wanted to otherure that they had skills to give them opportunities after the war. Also were very interested in helping to advance democracy at home beingl as female. American, and and coming up, tell me about the four women. The four women involved, to the this is an incident at fort evans in massachusetts. There were 100 women in this detachment. Nearly all of them were orderlies. Orderlies given the assignment the hospitalse of at fort devons. Assigned thisre position. They came in to have skilled jobs. Had hoped to have any other job, except cleaning time. At the same thing with ana morr
Road to feature an american city. Continuing our look at detroit, we will go back into the cities tour to learn how it went from farmland to one of the greatest industrial hubs in america by the turn of the 20 century. Welcome to the Detroit Historical museum. We are at the frontiers factory exhibit. This shows us the history of detroit from basically before the city was settled, the actual city of detroit, up through the rise of the barrett industry that takes place in the city. About the span of 200 years. The city of detroit itself was founded by the french in 1701. Detroit is a french name. It means the straight, which means the straight of water being the Detroit River that separates the United States from canada. At that time, it was all one region of land that was inhabited by the various native american people. This is a representation of what it may have looked like around 1701 when the french settled this area. There is a long history that took place before this. Human habita
That and on the opposite side, in windsor there is one facing our statue pointing back on this side. Gateway to freedom means that this was the passageway or the route to get to canada to freedom. Was aderground railroad loose mechanism for the freedom seekers to escape to freedom. So, throughout the north especially, their work safe havens. The idea was to get across the ohio river from the slave states to the free states and so there were a lot of safe havens throughout illinois, indiana, forthpittsburgh, and so as well as michigan. The founders future founders of second baptist got involved in the underground railroad before they were even a church. Before they were even a place of worship back in 1831 when thornton and Lucy Blackburn escaped from a plantation in kentucky. The colored community was involved in helping them escape to toronto, in canada. To numbers, mr. And mrs. Lightfoot and mr. And mrs. French were prominent in that escape and they were future members of the second
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im the ceo of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I will be your master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to be the first to welcome you to the veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to the gold starof family members we have with us here today. Fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, and sons and daughters in touch. All of those who experienced the loss of a loved one and know all too well of the sacrifices that our military families make. To those still waiting for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers, they are the folks you see in the Yellow Jackets and hats. Of the Vietnam Veter