African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Eddie S. Glaude Jr

Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [Jr., Eddie S. Glaude]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780195182897
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-08-20T21:00:00+00:00

African Americans from every sector of life were drafted to fight the battle against fascism in World War II. More than 3 million African American men enlisted in the armed services, and close to a half million were deployed in segregated units in Africa, the Pacific, and Europe. The war effort also drafted black men and women at home into factory lines as the stream of European migration was temporarily interrupted. White workers rebelled and “hate strikes” consumed the nation. But the call to fight for freedom and democracy abroad opened up pathways for calls for freedom and democracy at home. Even with the Great Migration, in the decade following World War II, the majority of African Americans, more than 60 percent in fact, still lived in the South. Most African Americans still languished in a region marked by Jim Crow and escalating racial violence. Black organizations and newspapers around the nation pressed the contradiction between the country’s rhetoric against Germany and its persistent commitment to racial apartheid at home. Black America was poised to challenge the nation in ways that the country had never before witnessed.

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