The Negro in Post-War Reconstruction

It is not too early to discuss and lay plans for post-war reconstruction. In fact, such considerations have an important bearing upon the urgent war effort itself. For, unless we have before us the kind of world we want we shall have difficulty knowing and feeling deeply what we are fighting for. Unless we can envision now, in cold realism, what in the light of long experience we might reasonably expect, we cannot possibly be prepared for the swift and cataclysmic changes to, follow in the wake of this the world's greatest war. We may prepare ourselves for radical changes in the economic life of the Negro. Industry itself is undergoing profound changes, and will not be at all the same after the forced growth of an all-out war. With the cessation of war production there must be expected a long period of building up of neglected goods for normal consumption; a return of eight or ten million able bodied young men to industry; a displacement of older men, women and Negroes who have been held in industry by the force of necessity and Presidential order. Both the necessity and the order will be relaxed with the disappearance of the emergency. At the same time, agriculture, which has been the mainstay of the

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• Selected References on the American Negro in World War I and World War II

  Dorothy B Porter•The Journal of Negro Education•1943

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