Word: menials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...efficiently, the policy will help to cure the services of one of their most serious ills. The Jim Crow policy of all the Armed Forces, plus the fact that many Negroes are, through no fault of their own, far below the educational standards for all but the most menial jobs, caused thousands of perfectly capable men to be lumped into miserable duties as stevedores and road-builders...
...Vichy in World War II, now living out his days on the He d'Yeu in the Bay of Biscay, was due for a change. After giving him a routine checkup, his doctors urged his jailers to give him easier living conditions, and cut out all his strenuous menial duties (e.g., cleaning up his own room...
Reconstruction. But the South had "had its fill of arms and glory." There were 400 soldiers' widows in one county of De Forest's military district; 600 in another. The planters were almost destitute. There were heiresses doing menial labor, great ladies without stockings. The planters wondered how they could keep the Negroes in the fields if they were not slaves. So they drew up elaborate contracts, forbidding them to leave the plantations without permission, setting fines for rudeness...
...accused were members of a company of 99 Negro WACs stationed at Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass. The four and 56 others, most of whom served as orderlies, had gone on a sit-down strike, complaining that they were given menial jobs and were treated badly because of their color. After Negro and white officers (including a major general) had talked to them, the 56 had gone back to their jobs. But not the disgruntled four: Privates Anna Morrison, Mary Green, Alice Young and Johnnie Murphy steadfastly refused to work...
...seasoned veterans and green replacements. While awaiting transfer to France, they will continue what they consider a happy assignment - though they would "rather be in action." They work, in battle dress, eight hours a day, have evenings off, do not have to bother with time-killing hikes and menial chores. More thoughtful soldiers also regard the project as a worthy contribution to Allied unity...