Which war?
If you mean WWII -- then the answer is that women had to take jobs that had been done by women. The new freedom was something they didn't want to give up when the war ended. Posters with "Rosie the riveter" were popular in getting women to help.
As for blacks -- the services were still segregated during WWII, and many blacks were relegated to being cooks and working other menial jobs. However, there were a few units -- like the Tuskegee Airmen where blacks took on a more important roll -- they became pilots and flew fighters that escorted bombers into Germany near the end of the war. They had a superb record and gained the respect of the white bomber pilots.
After the war, Truman desegregated the services.
You can probably get lots of information by searching the net for "Tuskegee airmen" or "Rosie the riveter."
If you mean a different war -- well, you should be more specific.
2007-01-09 12:31:57
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answered by Ranto 7
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Which war? World War 2? World War 1? Vietnam?
They all have different answers, but there are some pretty obvious ones - look at the suffrage movement of the 1910s (and when the right to vote was added to the US constitution), or look at the women working in factories in World War 2. Check out when black soldiers were desegregated, and what happened when white troops returned home to find black workers taking their jobs...think about what the warm reception to blacks in France did to their perceptions of social justice when they returned home to the US...
2007-01-09 20:31:00
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answered by Dilettante 5
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How did the war influence the lives of whites and kids?
2007-01-09 20:31:10
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answered by partyatthepalms09 3
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World War II
The rights of blacks and women has been given priority for their upliftments.
2007-01-09 20:31:04
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answered by wilma m 6
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it caused many of them to become spirits
2007-01-09 20:30:35
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answered by Anonymous
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