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"A Monument to Jim Crow": Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital

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Du Plessis, Lihani

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“A Monument to Jim Crow’: Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital” examines the proposed Congressional bill to build a segregated black veterans hospital as a memorial to Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia. This paper examines the developing ideology of racial...

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Democrat and racial demagogue, John Rankin unwaveringly stated that “in the South we take care of Negroes
Nutrition for Defense : How Wartime Nutrition Professionalized Home Economics

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Fox, Julia

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This paper examines home economics at Oregon State College (OSC) during World War Two and their involvement with the Committee of Nutrition for Defense. It looks at the changes that happened within the School of Home Economics at OSC that helped push them to professionalize their field.

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When Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a declaration of war on Japan and Nazi Germany, bringing America