I hit the East Bay Home Fair at the Crane Pavilion ( an old abandoned Ford manufacturing plant that has been rehabilitated to a modern exhibit hall), in Richmond, and the East Bay Blues Festival in, Martinez, today, which were good, but the best part of the day was going to the Rosie the Riveter Museum, in Richmond, honoring the tens of thousands of women (including my Mother) who were part of the effort to build almost 900 ships during World War II. The museum in Richmond, CA is the only museum in the country that honors those women and it is a national park. It is interesting that it was such a shock to society that women wanted to go to work, but in those days, girls and women worked on farms as hard as men, they just had not been permitted to work in factories next to men. It was also a time when African Americans were not permitted to work with whites. There was an extreme level of prejudice and racial strife in the country. However, there was progress and African Americans were permitted to do the same work. It was out of a horrible war and necessity that advancements came for women and minorities. Change is not all nice and even and planned, sometimes disruptions drive advancement.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 01:23:47 +0000
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