Black women

Make no mistake about it, Invisible Warriors: Africa American in World War II is an important documentary that brings to awareness another chapter in the U.S.’s heinous history of racial and gender disrimination. In it, filmmaker Gregory Cooke interviews Black women elder citizens who tell of their experiences as civilian and quasi-military workers who supported the U.S. fighting forces during World War II. They were then young women who left their hometowns and families and relocated to industrial centers where they filled jobs that were left open by men who’d been recruited to fight on the front lines. These women’s contibutions to the war effort were beyond essential, their skills were more than mighty and their patriotism and dedication to duty were unassailable. Yet, as Black women, they faced unforgettable and unforgiveable racial and gender discrimination that impacted every aspect of their work and personal lives at that time and up to the present.