Black Women at War

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Black Women at War
Women have been treated wrongly by people on various political and economic issues. Women enrolled in the Army but worked in less crucial rolls like cooking for the male soldiers and building war machinery aircraft carriers. During the time, the African women in America faced racist policies, segregation, poor pay and always assigned to the dirtiest work. The women also wrote letters to their husbands and worked in defence plants (The Drakwarior Perspective). Other roles of women during the war included tracking down soldiers, censoring mail, and blacking out sensitive information (Collins). Most women left domestic work and joined the American Army. However, black women soldiers never rose to the ranks due to racial discrimination from the whites. They were also prevented from joining the Army Nurse Corps (National D-Day_Memorial).
The ordeal women went through gave them negative experiences. The women of colour suffered the most because they were subject to various injustices (Shelby). Racial discrimination led to black women being banned from rising the ranks in the Army, joining the Army Nursing Corps and performing other jobs. This means that they were never comfortable in their working places. Women were prosecuted in the martial courts for various reasons, which were not necessarily right. Their experience was no...