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In 1925, he became head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He successfully got the Pullman Corporation to sign the 1st contract in history between a major company and a predominantly African American labor union. He convinced President Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802.

• Omar Bradley

• A. Philip Randolph

• Chester Nimitz

• Albert Einstein

World War 2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government

• bracero program

• Manhattan Project

• strategic bombing

• Executive Order 8802

plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms

• bracero program

• internment

• war bond

• demographics

temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group

• bracero program

• internment

• rationing

• war bond

World War II unit made up of Japanese American volunteers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• 442nd Regimental Combat Team

• Executive Order 8802

• Office of War Information

government controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime

• war bond

• internment

• island hopping

• rationing

government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during World War II

• Office of War Information

• bracero program

• Manhattan Project

• Executive Order 8802

a bond bought to fund a war effort, redeemable for interest after a certain period of time.

• demographics

• war bond

• internment

• rationing

statistics that show some human characteristics of a population

• demographics

• internment

• rationing

• kamikaze

last major German offensive on the western Front during World War II; it was an unsuccessful attempt to push back the Allies that crippled Germany by forcing it to use more resources than it could afford

• Battle of Midway

• island hopping

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle of the Coral Sea