Discrimination and African American Women at Charlestown Navy Yard (U.S. National Park Service)
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 17, 2023
The last page of Mabel Kahn's November 4, 1944 letter to Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor.
Mabel Kahn to Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, November 4, 1944; Charlestown Navy Yard, 1-GR-130, 1944-1945; Closed Regional Case Records, 1943-1946, Box 2; Records of the Committee on FEP 1940-1946, Record Group 228; National Archives at Boston.
African American women involved in the suffrage movement and subsequent social movements confronted both gender and race discrimination as they pushed for equality in political, social, and economic realms. Although women in general began making . . .
