Female, African American shipyard worker standing in front of a store in Richmond, CA. 1943. In this 1943 photograph by Dorothea Lange, a female African American shipyard worker leaves the yards at the end of her work shift. One shipyard welder remembered, in 1942, a chaperone was hired to escort us to our workplace and herd us to the bathroom and lunch. You see, they didnt know how the men would react. But soon there were just too many of us. Prior to the war, the Bay Areas entire shipyard industry employed only 5000 workers. During wartime, shipyards in Oakland, Richmond, Hunters Point, Mare Island, Sausalito, and the Stockton Channel would become the countrys leading producers of Liberty and Victory ships. Southern California was the nations headquarters for airplane construction.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:01:06 +0000
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