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This 3 page paper uses original documents to compare and contrast the wartime experiences of two working women, Fanny Christina Hill and Mary Stumph. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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build tanks, planes, guns, and bombs; women pilots even ferried the new planes from the factories to the front lines. This paper uses primary documents to describe the experiences of
two women who went to work in the defense plants. Discussion Fanny Christina Hill was a young black woman from Texas who went to California because all the jobs available
at home were domestic service jobs which didnt pay well (Hill). When she arrived in Los Angeles, she told her sister that she was considering getting a job in a
hotel or motel, because that job would still be there when the war was over (Hill). This indicates that Hill was quite bright and observant: she knew that when the
war ended, the men were going to want their jobs back, and she clearly was determined not to put herself in a position where she would be out of work
immediately when the conflict ended. She was correct, too-when the men came back they wanted to push the women out of the factories and back in the home "where they
belonged." By and large, they succeeded. But despite the fact that a job in a war plant was likely to be temporary, Hills sister encouraged her to apply, because the
pay was much better than anything else she could get. Hill did so, but she wasnt hired at first; instead she was sent to school where she was taught to
buck rivets; then she went to work at an aircraft plant (Hill). She describes herself as being a hard worker as well as a good student, but observes that "sometimes
even if youre good, you just dont get the breaks if the colors not right" (Hill). She found herself running into racial discrimination at the plant. Some departments, she says,
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