Explain the meaning of the "Double V" campaign and describe what changes it achieved.

The Double
Victory campaign was announced on February 7, 1942, about two months after the attack on Pearl
Harbor had thrust the United States into , in an African American newspaper called the
Pittsburgh Courier. Its catalyst was a letter written by a reader from Kansas named James
Thompson titled "Should I Sacrifice to Live Half-American?" Thompson questioned
whether colored Americans would see any improvement in their lives or be forced to suffer the
same indignities in the future that they suffered at present. In the military, African Americans
were relegated to the most menial tasks, and segregation among troops was an official policy.
The Double V represented the V for victory that was so popular among the Allied countries and an
additional V to stand for a victory over the prejudices against people of color that threatened
the freedoms of all American people.

The Pittsburgh
Courier was the most popular black newspaper in the country at the time. Well into 1943,
the...

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