Double V Campaign

The following resources will help you in your quest to mount a Double V Campaign.

 Print Resources

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 Online Resources

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 Internet Sites

General

The War: A Ken Burns Film

African Americans in World War II- Staging A Double V Campaign in the Classroom

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/downloads/double_v.pdf

Search & Explore "The War" Website

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/search_home.htm

Oral History WWII

http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/rosie/

Civil Rights Movement

http://www.vahistorical.org/civilrights/ww2.htm

 

 

African Americans

Timelines

Building Democracy http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/building_01.html

Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/features.jsp?cid=487

Department of Defense http://www.defenselink.mil/home/features/2007/BlackHistoryMonth/Timeline.html

Executive Order 8802- Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=72

Remembering the Legacy of African Americans in the Military http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2007/BlackHistoryMonth/Timeline.html

Clips

Segregation: Its Impact http://www.pbs.org/thewar/search_details.php?id=5381&type=3

African American Troops Training http://www.pbs.org/thewar/search_details.php?id=5373&type=3

The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

Pittsburgh Courier and Treason? Articles

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress

Images of the Double V Insignia

http://www.nasm.si.edu/blackwings/hdetail/detailbw.cfm?bwID=BW0034

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_18.html

http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html

Golden Age of Radio http://www.archive.org/details/worldwarIInewsOTRKIBM

Examples of Articles Written as Part of the Double V Campaign

Charlotta Bass http://www.socallib.org/bass/research/eagle/articles/index.html

The Pittsburgh Courier http://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/courier.html

African Americans in the U.S. Army During World War II (Sources for Written Background)

https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/AAME/aame4.html

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-worldwar/6150

African American Navy, Marine Corp., Women's Reserves, and Coast Guard Service During World War II

(Sources for Written Background)

https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Legacy/AAME/aame3a.html

Photography

African American Odyssey at the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html

Virginia Center for Digital History, WWII, The Home Front http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/solguide/VUS11/essay11b.html

Oregon State Archives "A Matter of Color: African Americans Face Discrimination"

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/life/minority.htm

National Archives: Pictures of African Americans During World War II

http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures

Posters from the WPA 1936-1943

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

"Black Wings" at the Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nasm.si.edu/blackwings/hdetail/detailbw.cfm?bwID=BW0034

"Civil Rights of Minorities" from the Wessels Living History Farm

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_18.html

"President and Public Pressure: For a Redress of Grievances" White House Historical Archives

http://www.whitehousehistory.org/04/subs/04_a03_d01.html

Tuskegee Airmen http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0215_tuskegee.html

 

Japanese Americans

http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/issei.html

Japanese Internment http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/jainternment/ww2/prewar.html

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/search.php

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/history_heritage/voa_nisei_soldiers_0507.asp

http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/japanese-americans/

http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/chapter/?vgnextchannel=093a2ef11ac65110VgnVCM100000a7c3d240RCRD&chapterchannel=33d778fd108eb110VgnVCM10000075c1d240RCRD

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/stories/0801_0607.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-28004652.html

Draft Resisters  http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-62924963.html

http://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_war_democracy_japanese_american.htm

 

 

Native Americans

Native Americans in World War II http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/NAWWII.html

Navajo Code Talkers

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq12-1.htm

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm

National Museum of the American Indian: Code Talkers ***

http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/

http://www.defense.gov/specials/nativeamerican01/wwii.html

http://www.phoenixmag.com/lifestyle/history/201004/rock-the-vote/

Native American Civil Rights Timeline

http://www.knowitall.org/roadtrip/cr-html/facts/timelines/na/index.cfm

** Use databases.  Search "Code Talkers."


If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

 Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in key word(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "World War II", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites about the World War II as opposed to all of the sites containing the word world plus all of the sites containing the word war.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about a the World War II, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma, followed by a space and you other search term.  For instance; if I wanted to find out about the causes and consequences of World War II, I would enter the following:
     

     "World War II", causes, consequences
     

  5. Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     
  6. Be sure to critically evaluate Internet sources.  UC Berkley Library's Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask is an excellent source to help you critique the quality of websites in the following areas:
  7. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on the Internet, online databases, or print material, you must cite every resource you used.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.