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  2. Double V campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Double V campaign, initiated by the Pittsburgh Courier from February 1942, was a drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II. The idea of the Double V originated from a letter written by James G. Thompson on January 31, 1942.

  3. Executive Order 8802 - Wikipedia

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    In a 1940 issue of The Pittsburgh Courier – a newspaper that would later be intimately involved in the Double V campaign – Randolph demanded the right for Black Americans “to work and fight for [their] country”. [6] In January 1941, Randolph formed the March on Washington Movement (MOWM). The first objective of the movement was to bring ...

  4. United States home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The mainstream Protestant churches supported the "Double V" campaign of the black churches to achieve victory against the enemies abroad, and victory against racism on the home front. However, there was little religious protest against the incarceration of Japanese on the West Coast or against segregation of Blacks in the services.

  5. Doris Miller - Wikipedia

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    On March 12, an Associated Press story named Miller as the sailor, citing the African-American newspaper Pittsburgh Courier; [18] additional news reports credited Lawrence D. Reddick with learning the name through correspondence with the Navy Department, with these news reports becoming influential aspects in giving the Double V campaign ...

  6. Fair Employment Practice Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) was created in 1941 in the United States to implement Executive Order 8802 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work."

  7. This Is Why “W” Is Pronounced Double U and Not Double V - AOL

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    This Latin alphabet was then forced to come up with a symbol to represent the sound of the “w.” According to GrammarPhobia, this 7th-century problem was remedied by the symbol “uu,” which ...

  8. March on Washington Movement - Wikipedia

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    The March on Washington Movement (MOWM), 1941–1946, organized by activists A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin [1] was a tool designed to pressure the U.S. government into providing fair working opportunities for African Americans and desegregating the armed forces by threat of mass marches on Washington, D.C. during World War II.

  9. The Sanders campaign tried to rig caucus tiebreakers with ...

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    Anyhow, now that “Sanders actually won the primary” truthers have evidence that their own campaign had a Machiavellian streak . The Sanders campaign tried to rig caucus tiebreakers with double ...