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VI.Opportunities for African<br />
Americans & Mexicans<br />
• Blacks resist discrimination w/ protest<br />
• Randolph & proposed March on DC, 1941<br />
• FDR issue order to ban discrimination in<br />
hiring for defense industries & US Gov’t<br />
• New defense jobs spur 1.5 million blacks<br />
to migrate from South to cities in North &<br />
West<br />
• US Gov’t encourage Mexican<br />
immigration<br />
• Gain jobs, but like blacks, Mexicans<br />
suffer discrimination & segregation<br />
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