| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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"We, Too, Are Americans": African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940–54. By Megan Taylor Shockley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. x, 256 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02863-5.)

Many historians have found the roots of the civil rights movement in World War II, but few have expounded on the unique contributions of women to the movement in the war period. Civil rights leaders and most works emphasize issues directly involving men, such as military service. Megan Taylor Shockley's book recognizes women in World War II and the early Cold War for their participation in civil rights actions and their expansion of the themes of democracy and a "Double Victory" for rights at home and abroad. It contends that women sought to redefine citizenship to include both their race and their gender as deserving of equal rights and that they thus helped provide a rhetoric for the emerging civil rights movement.

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