Дети войны

Историческая экскурсия сегодня - ноябрь 1945. Народы разных стран приходили в себя после мировой войны. Новые члены продолжали присоединяться к только что созданной всемирной организации - ООН. В Нюрнберге открывался судебный процесс над нацистскими преступниками.

В новом мире всходила мирная заря, и внимание переключалось на новое поколение.



1 ноября 1945 выходит первый номер нового журнала “Ebony”, посвящённого чёрным американцам. В заглавной истории рассказывается про пастора из Вермонта, который возит чёрных детей из бедных районов Нью-Йорка на отдых в Вермонт. Подобные позитивные истории призваны внушить оптимизм о возможности успешного многорасового общества.

Featuring cover stories on prominent members of the Black diaspora from every sector, including politics, religion, entertainment, business, education, science, and the arts, EBONY frequently featured articles about groups, such as co-op farmers, college student associations, charities, church congregations, and school children, who proved that healthy, interracial organizations could not only exist but were a possibility for any association of people willing to reciprocate love and respect without regard for race.
Essential to the Negro experience of the ’40s was the outbreak of World War II. On the home front, women of all races and African Americans, stepped in to fill jobs left vacant by white males gone to war. Black U.S. soldiers and members of The Women's Army Corps (WAC), the women's branch of the United States Army, serving abroad, experienced the humanizing effect of equality among Europeans. Once WWII ended, these Negro men and women were much less tolerant of the backwards practice of Jim Crow in the states. EBONY devoted multiple articles to the plight of returned Negro GI’s from the job shortage they faced, to the children they fathered and were forced to leave overseas because of the laws in the United States that prevented them from marrying non-Negro women, to their repatriation to other countries in order to eschew the confines of racial hostilities at home.
https://www.ebony.com/exclusive/bhm-ebony-negroes-1940s/

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