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Community Story

The Pacific Parachute Company

  • Business
  • Labor
  • Military
  • Segregation & Community Building, 1890-1945
Photograph of Workers at the Pacific Parachute Company
This is an hour of crisis. It is a crisis of democracy. . . . What is this crisis? To American Negroes, it is the denial of jobs in Government defense projects. It is racial discrimination in Government departments. It is widespread Jim Crowism in the armed forces of the Nation. 
A photograph of an African American woman washing laundry outdoors in a yard. Clothes hand behind her on a line.
Historic Event

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

  • Business
A black and white photograph of two soldiers, in military fatigues, perched on the edge of the windshield, boots resting on the jeep's hood.
Community Story

Black Power and 'The Black G.I.'

  • Military
Portrait of Bridget "Biddy" Mason
Biography

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

  • Labor