Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as the United States joined the war that had been raging for so long, the largest circulation African American newspaper in the country called for a "Double V" campaign: "Victory over our enemies at home and victory over our enemies on the battlefields abroad."(1) The editor of...
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Beginning in the paper's February 7, 1942 edition and continuing weekly until 1943, the Double V campaign demanded that African Americans who were risking their lives abroad receive full citizenship rights at home.
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The Double V campaign: In a 1942 letter to the Pittsburgh Courier , James G. Thompson called for a Double V Campaign to achieve two victories: over the Axis powers in World War II and over racial prejudice in the United States.
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Many black leaders used a dual response to WW2. Known as the "Double V" campaign, they urged African Americans to support the war effort as a way to fight racism abroad, while still criticizing and trying to eliminate segregation and discrimination in the United States.
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Welcome to vvcampaign.org. I created this site in 1998 following a research paper on the Double V campaign. My paper was originally an assignment from Ford Risley's COMM 401 - Mass Media History. When I initially did the research, there was not much on the Web about the Black Press, during WWII or anytime.
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Michael L. Cooper, author of Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I, describes the problems black servicemen faced in their fight for a double victory. The Double V Campaign, as it was called, inspired black soldiers to fight on the front lines abroad as well as to fight segregation and inequality at home.
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Historian Frederick S. Voss writes that the paper "gave birth to the 'Double V' campaign by featuring [the] emblem on its front page, on February 7, 1942, with no explanation of what it meant.
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