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Double V campaign
An African American wartime campaign demanding victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism within the United States.
Enfranchisement
The granting of the right to vote. In the context of the suffrage movement, it refers to extending voting rights to women. In the Canadian Indigenous context, it had a different meaning: the process by which an Indigenous person gave up their legal status and rights as an Indigenous person in exchange for Canadian citizenship.
Tuskegee Airmen
African-American military pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during the Second World War. The 99th Pursuit Squadron, nicknamed 'the Red Tails', served as fighter escorts in North Africa and Europe, challenging assumptions about African-American capability in combat roles.