Question

How did a war fought to bring "essential human freedoms" to the world fail to protect the home-front liberties of African Americans, Indians, Japanese-Americans, and Mexican Americans?

Answer 1

Lynchings still occurred, segregation was still an issue in the south, plantations did not share the economic upturn due to war, Japanese were forced into prison camps, Mexican workers were treated unfairly under Bracero program, zoot-suit riots.