The American State & the Management of Race Conflict in the Workplace & in the Army, 1941-1945

The American mobilization for World War II produced widespread interracial conflict in factories in the urban north and in army camps in the rural south. In responding to racial friction, this article shows, the Roosevelt Administration was guided more by concerns for the war effort, tempered by local and party coalitional concerns, than by the goal of interracial reform. This strategy, the author concludes, successfully defused the racial crisis and insulated the President from social conflict that might have debilitated the nation's warmaking capacity and undermined his political support

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