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African Americans. See Black
Americans
Agriculture. See Farm laborers and
farming
Air raid precautions, 37, 38–43,
39 (ill.), 47, 57, 64–65,
184–185, 194 (ill.), 195–196
Aircraft manufacturing, 74–81, 75
(ill.), 77 (ill.), 81 (ill.), 86 (ill.),
124, 130 (ill.)
Aircraft Warning Service (AWS),
47, 55
“Alexander J. Allen” (Alexander
J. Allen), 148–149, 159–164
Allies, the, 2, 36, 243
American Red Cross, 60 (ill.), 211
“Are America’s Civilians Ready
for Attack?” (Helena H.
Smith and William Sloane),
57–66
“Arsenal of Democracy”
(Franklin D. Roosevelt), 2–3,
4–11, 12, 15, 17
Assembly centers for Japanese
Americans, 149, 167,
170–171; also see Internment
camps
Assembly lines, 124
Atomic bombs, 96, 192, 198, 210
Automobile industry, 124,
125–129, 125 (ill.), 128 (ill.),
133 (ill.), 135
AWS. See Aircraft Warning Service
Axis powers, 2, 4, 7, 243
Bold type indicates main
entries and their page
numbers.
Illustrations are marked
by (ill.).
B
Baby boom, 242
Battle of the Atlantic, 14
“Behind Our Menacing Race
Problem” (Turner Catledge),
148, 150–156
Berlin, Irving, 248
Black Americans
and discrimination after the
war, 242
and discrimination in the U.S.
military, 147
and discrimination in the
workplace, 85, 135, 147–149,
150, 152, 156–157, 160
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and labor unions, 164
and race riots, 135, 148,
150–152, 151 (ill.),
153–154, 153 (ill.), 157
and the Double V campaign, 148, 159, 161
communities of, 89, 135
employment of, prewar
68, 147
employment of, wartime
84, 85, 122, 125,
147–148, 150, 160, 164
housing for, 148, 150, 155
income of, 147, 242
military service of, 147,
152, 156–157
organizations for, 164, 165
Blackout and dimout procedures, 38, 55, 57, 111,
120–121, 121 (ill.)
Bombing
of Great Britain, 4, 14, 37
of Japan, 96, 192, 198,
210
of Pearl Harbor, 20, 22,
24–25, 35, 166
of U.S. mainland, 43
Bonds. See War bonds
Bosanquet, Barbara S.,
196–197
Bradley, La Verne, 110–121
Britain. See Great Britain
Brothers killed in action,
241
Business, U.S.
and resistance to mobilization, 2, 13, 17, 20
government control over,
2, 32
military alliance with, 32
“A Busload of Strangers”
(Olive Nowak), 235,
244–248
C
Carlson, Esther, 247
Casualties
at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, 210
at Pearl Harbor, 20, 35,
235
the Sullivan brothers, 241
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Catledge, Turner, 148,
150–156
Censorship of news, 23, 26,
43, 214
Children and young people
activities and games of,
181, 185, 190, 190 (ill.),
195 (ill.), 199
and juvenile delinquency,
134
and views of the enemy,
185, 193, 197
and war stamps, 188 (ill.),
223
as civil defense volunteers,
50, 50 (ill.), 51, 55
as farm laborers, 106
daycare centers for,
96–97, 96 (ill.)
fears and anxieties of,
181, 182, 184, 193,
196–197
in internment camps,
175 (ill.)
wartime memories of,
183–189, 192–198
Christmas during wartime,
235, 244–249,
246 (ill.)
Christmas Eve message
(Franklin D. Roosevelt),
248
“Christmas, Wartime, and a
Wedding” (Esther
Carlson), 247
Citizen 13660 (Mine
Okubo), 149, 166–179
Cities affected by the war.
See Home front communities
Civil Air Raid Warning
Service, 47, 51
Civil defense, 16, 28 (ill.),
34–35, 36; also see
Office of Civilian
Defense; Volunteers in
civil defense
in Rockland County,
New York, 62–66
in Sheridan County,
Wyoming, 58–62, 66
insignia, 44
local councils for, 35, 57,
66
American Home Front in World War II: Primary Sources
public attitude toward,
34–35, 44, 57
publications on, 37, 38–43
Civil Rights Act (1964), 158,
211
Civil rights, 146, 152, 157,
158, 164, 211
Clinton, Bill, 145
Coast Guard and Coast
Guard Auxiliary, 47
Cold War (1945–91), 210–211
Communities. See Home
front communities
Consumer goods, 2, 13, 17,
24, 204, 224–226, 242
Contracts for production of
war materials, 31–32,
148
Crosby, Bing, 248
Cunning, Sheril
Jankovsky, 181, 182,
183–189
D
Daycare centers, 96–97,
96 (ill.)
“Day of Infamy” (Franklin D.
Roosevelt), 22, 23 (ill.)
Deaths. See Casualties
Defense housing, 109,
137–145, 138 (ill.),
140 (ill.), 141 (ill.),
142 (ill.), 143 (ill.)
Depression, the. See Great
Depression, the
Detention centers. See
Japanese internment
Detroit
automobile industry in,
124, 125–129, 135
population of, 125, 132,
135
shipbuilding and shipping, 128, 129–131
social problems in,
133–135, 148, 150–152,
153–154, 153 (ill.)
Dimouts. See Blackout and
dimout procedures
Discrimination and segregation, 135, 146–149,
150, 152