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I agree with Angie. It also seems that McLeod is reminding the President that unity in America is paramount when fighting against religious and racial hatred overseas. On a secondary note, I am not sure how pertinent this is but I found it interesting that McLeod addresses the African American community as his. “…the Negro, as a minority group in this nation, express anew his faith in your leadership and his unswerving adherence …” (371). I just find it interesting that a woman who is writing about black women fighting for their country would address her community in a masculine form. –Caryn Levine | I agree with Angie. It also seems that McLeod is reminding the President that unity in America is paramount when fighting against religious and racial hatred overseas. On a secondary note, I am not sure how pertinent this is but I found it interesting that McLeod addresses the African American community as his. “…the Negro, as a minority group in this nation, express anew his faith in your leadership and his unswerving adherence …” (371). I just find it interesting that a woman who is writing about black women fighting for their country would address her community in a masculine form. –Caryn Levine | ||
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| + | Mary McLeod Bethune--"prominent black educator, civil rights activist, and director of the Negro Division of the National Youth Administration." What did this black woman who obviously held much status in both black and white communities mean when she urged FDR to "make such use of the services of QUALIFIED Negro women..."? What made a black woman qualified in the eyes of Bethune? -schang | ||
==Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, A Schoolgirl at Manzanar, 1940s== | ==Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, A Schoolgirl at Manzanar, 1940s== | ||
