HISTORY 40C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jim Crow Laws, Double V Campaign, Fair Employment Practice Committee
8 Jun 2016
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War affected chinese americans in very different ways than japanese life. Japanese were portrayed in a negative light after pearl harbor. Chinese there was a huge sentimental attachment because of the missionary attempts through churches. China was also attacked by japanese so us was pro-chinese and had. Chinese propaganda to make sure that chinese were good and. 1943 congress repealed the exclusion and granted citizenship to. Chinese were still subject to the tiny national quotas allowed the immigration act of 1924. First chinese born woman to get a phd in physics from ucb in 1940. Worked from columbia university on manhattan project building atomic bomb during wwii. First woman ever to receive an honorary doctorate from princeton. Before wwii, great migration brought many blacks to northern cities. Blacks used their patriotic service as soldiers and workers to press for inclusion in the american way . But segregation remained law in the south and practice in the north.
