World War 2 and Civil Rights?

Question

What were the immediate effects of World War 2 on Civil Rights?
Were civil rights affeccted in long run due to World War 2?
(Mexican American Wars, military, public, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Native Americans and women)
What roles did they play in the war?

Answer 1

Immediate effects were that minorities were willing to fight and die for the United States; many were awakened to their contributions. It further paved the way for minorities' civil rights while serving in the United States military; this is reflected by minorities attaining higher rank and greater responsibilities during subsequent wars:

Minority contributions during World War II

Native Americans as "Code Breakers"
Tuskegee Airmen--Breaking Flight Barriers
During World War II civil rights groups and black professional organizations pressed the government to provide training for black pilots on an equal basis with whites. Their efforts were partially successful. African American fighter pilots were trained as a part of the Army Air Force, but only at a segregated base located in Tuskegee, Alabama. Hundreds of airmen were trained and many saw action.

Toni Frissell became the first professional photographer permitted to photograph the all-black 332nd Fighter Pilot Squadron in a combat situation. She traveled to their air base in southern Italy, from where the "Tuskegee Airmen" flew sorties into southern Europe and North Africa. Best known of those Frissell photographed was Col. Benjamin O. Davis,Jr., the son of the first African American general, pictured on the left, and first Lieutenant Lee Rayford.

Black women as nurses during World War II.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html

Answer 2

Skins have served in EVERY war this country has ever been in. and I do mean EVERY from the Revolution to IRAQ.
Without US you'd be speaking german or drinking sake.

We have been Scouts, Snipers, Code talkers, Pilots, Infantry, Tunnel Rats, Artillery, name it and we've BEEN.

You would think with a service record like this we'd be full fledged citizens a long time ago. snippet from
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun02.html
On June 2, 1924, Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting.
We weren't even considered HUMAN until AFTER the blacks got the right to VOTE.
In 1870 the 15th Amendment was ratified, which provided specifically that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude. This superseded state laws that had directly prohibited black voting. Congress then enacted the Enforcement Act of 1870, which contained criminal penalties for interference with the right to vote, and the Force Act of 1871, which provided for federal election oversight.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/voting/intro/intro_a.htm

Answer 3

World War 2 not a nice idea -I look at it as men can't get along in any position of head of a country. But, I can say native Canadians and Native America from any tribe that served in World war 2 sure got ripped off in the U.S. and Canada. The government didn't wana recognize them as an eqaul as their fellow man as served.

Answer 4

two ( of three) good answers before me.......another immediate effect of WW2 on civil rights was...........before the war there was little traveling ( compared to today) and little interaction between classes and groups......Northerners didn't know Southerners, Irish hung with Irish, etc etc.
WW2 was a great melting pot..where you had Irish, Native American , Italian, Pole, Back all mixed together in the same army, division, sometimes even platoons......and it gave everyone a chance to see and think..."hey, that ________ ain't s bad after all...."