Few know the significant role millions of women played during World War II efforts. Those women were called Rosie the Riveters and many of them were African American women. Ray Strickland highlights a ...

Rosie the Riveters is a term to describe women who took on industrial and government jobs during WWII. Millions of women stepped up to help, including African American women.

In the lead up to and during World War II the military establishment continued to maintain that African-Americans soldiers were not as capable as their white counterparts and needed more intensive ...

Orlando International Airport is paying tribute to a special group of African-American servicemen in the US Army Air Forces. The airport has dedicated an area at its premises to an exhibition for ...

"There was not a lot of recognition of African Americans in World War II. There was not a lot of recognition of women in World War II. And that recognition, the recognition that there should be ...

"A great story, and rarely has a story been told on African Americans in World War II, but this African American unit of all females," he said. Their story is now a Netflix movie starring Kerry ...

As more and more men in the U.S. Navy deployed overseas during World War II, someone needed to fill traditionally ...

His pioneering research and systematic developments in the use and preservation of blood plasma during World War II not only saved thousands of ... preservation and storage techniques adapted by the ...

“Suddenly jobs were opened up that were formerly closed to African Americans ... salary increases that really blossoms after World War II.” Within a decade of Coleman’s unprecedented ...

According to the book "African Americans of Canton ... "As a result of her factory employment during World War II, when most men were at war and even black women could find work, she worked ...

A documentary chronicling the journeys of over 150 African American students from Wilberforce ... all-female unit of the U.S. Army during World War II, led by Major Charity Adams.