What are some other reasons why black people did not benefit because of WWII?

Question

Other than they were segregated both in the war and at home

Answer 1

Hey buddy, The black man benefited greatly by the out come of WW 2. If the axis powers had won there wouldn't be a black person,Jew,Asian immigrant in the whole wide country. You think about that some and by the way get of the "my grate grandad was a slave wagon and enjoy the freedom ALL our grandads won for US.

Answer 2

Well, Black Americans did benefit in some ways because of WWII, but were denied many of the direct benefits that other Americans enjoyed.

Many Black contributed greatly to the war effort, both behing the lines and in actual combat. While rampant racism existed in the armed forces, there were a few "cracks" that developed in the old beliefs that Blacks were not good in combat. One well know example is the Tuskeegee flyers and another is the Red Ball Express.

Jobs were the most direct benefit at home. Many rural blacks didn't get anything from the war efforts dollars, while others particularly in the Northern industrial cities got good manufacturing jobs. This led to a large migration of blacks from rural Southern states to Northern cities in hopes of those jobs, but in many cases the employment did not pan out so they wound up living in ghettos in chicago and detroit, etc.

Also, a big benefit of returning veterans was the GI Bill that provided education and home loans. This was so huge it spurred construction at every university in the country, raised out level of education and also created million of home owners that flocked to the suburbs, which tended to be mostly white. Blacks were not given these benefits so the Black communities could not get out of the cycle of poor education and poverty.

Eventually, and I really think you need to make this point, the atmosphere worldwide after WWII was one of freedom and human rights and civil rights. Places that were colonies now wanted independence. People that were oppressed now demanded equal rights. There was a worldwide explosion of awareness that there were injustices everywhere, even here in the US, and that those injustices could not go on. We were hipocrits for demonizing the Nazis when a Black man could not drink out of a public drinking fountain.

That' the environment for change...and that what led to the victories of the Civil Rights movement.

Answer 3

NO ONE 'benefited' from WWII (or any other war) .
The only good thing is that some one who was being attacked, succeeded in defending themselves.
Hitler and Japan wanted to rule the planet and Hitler wanted to eliminate Jews, and the Japanese tried to decimate the Chinese and were eventually beaten back
BUT no one benefited - their countries survived and they kept their freedom but millions of Jews and Chinese along with lots of French, British and Americans paid with their lives .
Who came up with this non-sequiter about benefit ?

Answer 4

READ A LITTLE!!THE TUSKGEEGEE AIRMEN!!THE RED-TAILED DEVILS!!!!I PERSONNALY KNEW A BLACK WARRIOR OF THIS TIME WHO HAS SINCE PASSED AWAY!!HE MADE ENGINNER ON TRAINS IN AMERICA BY WORKING UP THROUGH THE RANKS!!HE TOOK AMERICAN "BIG BOY" TRAINS TO EUROPE IN A SPECIAL CAPACITY!!THE GERMANS WOULD PULL THEIR TANKS INTO RAILWAY TUNNELS AND FIRE POINT BLACK INTO "LITTLE"FRENCH TRAIN AND CLOG THE TUNNELS AND TRAINLINES FOR MONTHS!!THEIR LITTLE BELLS WERE GRAVY FOR THE NAZI PANZERS WAITING!!MY FRIEND PUT THE LITTLE BELLS ON THE BEASTLY GIGANTIC AMERICAN TRAIN ENGINES AND PLOUGHED THROUGH THE UNSUSPECTING NAZI SUPERMEN LIKE A HOT KNIFE THROUGH BUTTER!!NOW THAT'S "BLACK POWER" AND GENIUS UNDER FIRE..A LITTLE THING WE CALL COURAGE!!OUR BLACK SOLDIERS HAD TO FIGHT US TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF "kp" and kitchen duty to be able to fight the enemy!!!they did great and exemplary service and i will not bridge the slightest implication that they didn't step up and show themselves the TRUE WARRIORS THEY ARE from ANYONE ...black or white or polka dot!!in addition JOBS that were heretofore restricted by race,skill level and education became available in the northern industrial belts for both male and female black citizens as war dragged on!!the PULLMAN PORTERS were a distinctly proud and worthy example!!THE BLACK AIRMEN DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES AGAINST HITLER'S BEST NAZI SUPERMEN IN ITALY AND SOUTHERN EUROPE!!THESE PILOTS SKILLS AND COURAGE WERE BOTH LAUDED BY THEIR COMMANDING ACHIEVEMENTS BUT GUDGINLY BY THE NAZIS THAT THEY FOUGHT AND DISMISSED FROM THE SKIES!!WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF BEING SHOWN TO BE THE EQUAL OF ANY MAN ON THE BATTLEFIELD OR IN THE SKY!!YOU MY FRIEND ARE ASKING THE WRONG QUESTIONS!!THE QUESTION IS WHY WOULD YOU BE STEERED INTO ASKING IT!!DON'T FORGET THAT MANY OF THE WOMEN ON THE ASSEMBLY LINES MAKING THE PLANES AND TANKS,TRUCKS,WEAPONS AND AMMUNITIONS WERE BLACK WOMEN!!THEY EXCELLED AT THEIR NEWLY AVAILABLE POSITIONS ALSO AND WERE SHAMEFULLY IN MANY CASES "DISMISSED" WHEN MALES RETURNED TO THEIR FORMER JOB POSITIONS WHEN THE WAR ENDED!!!MANY OF THESE WOMEN HAD NEVER WORKED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME BEFORE!!THEIR WERE FEMALE BLACK FLIERS TO THAT DELIVERED PLANES TO EUROPE AND OTHER THEATERS OF WAR!!