Title: 
Headings: 
HCHS
 

Chapter
 
9;
 
Section
 
2
 
Notes
 

IRISH
 
PRIDE
 

HCHS
 


Content: With
 
large
 
numbers
 
of
 
men
 
in
 
the
 
military,
 
employers
 
were
 
willing
 
to
 
hire
 
women
 
for
 
jobs. One
 
million
 
Women
 
joined
 
the
 
workforce
 
for
 
the
 
first
 
time. Eight
 
million
 
switched
 
to
 
higher
 
paying
 
industrial
 
jobs. The
 
wartime
 
changes
 
in
 
female
 
employment
 
were
 
not
 
permanent. When
 
the
 
war
 
ended,
 
most
 
women
 
returned
 
to
 
their
 
previous
 
jobs
 
or
 
stopped
 
working. Henry
 
Ford
 
sent
 
company
 
agents
 
to
 
the
 
South
 
to
 
recruit
 
African
 
Americans. Other
 
companies
 
quickly
 
followed. They
 
convinced
 
between
 
300,000
 
and
 
500,000
 
African
 
Americans
 
to
 
leave
 
the
 
South
 
and
 
move
 
to
 
northern
 
cities. The
 
massive
 
population
 
movement
 
became
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
“Great
 
Migration.” It
 
greatly
 
altered
 
the
 
racial
 
make-up
 
of
 
cities
 
like
 
Chicago,
 
New
 
York,
 
Cleveland,
 
and
 
Detroit.