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A War Worker Finds New Independence on the Job
When Los Angeles resident Beatrice Morales Clifton went to work at the Lockheed Aircraft plant in Burbank, California, she was a married mother of four children. In this excerpt from a longer interview, Morales Clifton, the daughter of Mexican [...]
Tags: Rosie the Riveter, World War II
Item Type: Oral History
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Rosie the Riveter Leaves the Industrial Workplace
While government planners and factory owners assumed that women’s industrial work during World War II would last only as long as the war lasted, many of the women had other ideas. After the war ended, despite their new skills, they found [...]
Tags: Rosie the Riveter, World War II
Item Type: Oral History
Historical Era: Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)