... the same rights. Of course, many white men didn't see it that way, believing they were naturally superior, ordained by God to rule this land, and all others were similarly ordained to be eternally subservient. Thus were born the Women's Lib and Civil Rights movements of the '60s & '70s.

When the war ended, white men coming home expected things to go back to how they'd been before, but the equality genie was out of the bottle. Citing their efforts to help prosecute the war, women and blacks argued, correctly, that they had proven they were equal to white men and, so, deserved ...

... wiring, and other skilled labor normally done by men. Meanwhile, overseas, "colored" troops were proving their worth on the battlefield, fighting and dying alongside their white comrades, prompting Gen. Eisenhower to desegregate the Army in Europe.
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By our contemporary standards, yes, but that's how our society had been for 200 years. WW2 was the catalyst for the massive societal changes that followed. Women worked in factories, making tanks and planes, replacing men fighting overseas. This required doing "men's work" - welding, riveting...

No, not quite; that started many thousands of years ago. While MAGA is, indeed, a regressive movement, the goal is to return to 1950, the last time they feel America was "geat" - fresh off WW2, Jim Crow was law, LGBTQ stayed hidden, women stayed in the home & bedroom, etc.

We rarely see the northern lights here in South Carolina, so in October 2024, we were watching comet Tsuchinshan. This was the view from North Charleston, S.C., on 13 Oct. 2024. 🙂

(Pic mine.)

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