{"id":6325,"date":"2022-10-31T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=6325"},"modified":"2022-10-31T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:51:14","slug":"double-v-campaign-in-wwii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/double-v-campaign-in-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Double V Campaign in WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/40066943\/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQwMDY2OTQzLCJpYXQiOjE2NjcyMzc3NDYsImV4cCI6MTY2NzMyNDE0Nn0.IStZfmNhd1hFYLEgeu53MFDpuAHLHAOpVqR75BlF8sI\"><strong>The famous letter (Pittsburgh Courier, January 31, 1942)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.17.11-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6329 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.17.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Double V letter\" width=\"528\" height=\"1354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.17.11-PM.png 528w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.17.11-PM-117x300.png 117w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.17.11-PM-399x1024.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.newspapers.com\/the-double-v-campaign\/\">James Gratz Thompson (born 1915, age 26)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-1024x729.png\" alt=\"Thompson\" width=\"940\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-1536x1093.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM-422x300.png 422w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-31-at-1.12.26-PM.png 1734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6339\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V-861x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V-861x1024.png 861w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V-768x914.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Double-V.png 1277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Career details on Thompson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>James G. Thompson came to Pittsburgh in late 1942 to help coordinate <span class=\"markxnfnslima\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Double<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark30wf4moil\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">V<\/span> campaign for the<em> Courier<\/em> before enlisting in US Army where he served from 1943 to 1946, along with more than one million other African Americans.\u00a0 Thompson served both stateside and overseas, with tours of duty in the India-Burma theater.<\/li>\n<li>Married Erma Hortense Britt in 1944 in San Bernadino, CA\u00a0 and lived in\u00a0 Los Angeles California, working for a time as a salesman for a <span class=\"mark30wf4moil\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">v<\/span>acuum company while she was a typist.\u00a0 They appear to have divorced in the 1960s.<\/li>\n<li>In 1950, Thompson was denied a pension because he had enlisted from Pennsylvania without being resident long enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_6333\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6333\" class=\"wp-image-6333 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension-1024x887.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension-1024x887.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension-768x666.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension-346x300.png 346w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-pension.png 1274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thompson&#8217;s rejected 1950 pension application (Ancestry.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_6334\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-as-older-man.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6334\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6334\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-as-older-man-139x300.png\" alt=\"Thompson\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-as-older-man-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-as-older-man-476x1024.png 476w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/10\/Thompson-as-older-man.png 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thompson, age 54<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1969, J. Gratz Thompson was named as a coordinator for the Human Resources Corporation in Kansas City, MO after recently serving as a youth supervisor at a local boys home and as a substitute teacher.\u00a0 The article called him a newspaperman, included a photo, and stated that he had most recently worked on the news desk of the <em>Las\u00a0<span class=\"mark30wf4moil\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">V<\/span>egas Sun<\/em>.\u00a0 No mention of the <span class=\"markxnfnslima\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Double<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark30wf4moil\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">V<\/span>\u00a0campaign.<\/li>\n<li>James G. Thompson died in Wichita in 1999.\u00a0 His death notice in the <em>Wichita Eagle<\/em>, October 15, 1999, listed him as journalist but made no mention of the <span class=\"markxnfnslima\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Double<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark30wf4moil\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">V<\/span>\u00a0campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous letter (Pittsburgh Courier, January 31, 1942) James Gratz Thompson (born 1915, age 26) Career details on Thompson James G. 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