The War Encourages Social
Change
By:Danielle, Jovani, Anthony, Kyle
African Americans and the War
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Black public opinion about the war was divided
W.E.B. Du Bois believed that blacks should support the war effort
African American support for the war was believed by Du Bois to strengthen
calls for racial justice
William Monroe Trotter believed that victims of racism shouldn’t support a
racist government
Trotter, in contrast to Du Bois, approached and favored protest
Most African Americans supported the war though
The Great Migration
● Large scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to
cities in the North.
● This great population shift had already begun before the war in the late
19th century.
● The outbreak of World War I and the drop in European immigration
increased job opportunities.
● Why did the African Americans migrate to the North?
Women in the War
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Women began to getting jobs that were exclusively for men.
Examples; Railroad workers, cooks, dockworkers, etc.
There were other women such as Jane Addams who was more active at the
peace movement.
Jane helped found the Women’s Peace Party in 1915 and remained a pacifist
even after the United States entered the war.
In 1919, congress finally passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the
right to vote.
The Flu Epidemic
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Flu epidemic affected about one- quarter of the U.S. population.
Mines shut down,telephone service was in half and factories and offices
staggered working hours
Possibly spread around the world by soldiers, the epidemic killed about
500,000 americans before it disappeared in 1919.
Historians believe that the influenza virus killed 30 million worldwide