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In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing the forgotten daycares during WWII.
Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro0:46 - Rosie the Riveter 4:20 - The Women in War Jobs Campaign7:18 - The Lanham Act10:53 - Wartime Daycare14:53 - Post War Time17:27 - Lanham Kids as Adults
►Sources:https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/childcare-on-the-world-war-ii-home-front.htm?utm_source=article&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=experience_more&utm_content=small https://www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/the-lanham-act-and-universal-childcare-during-world-war-ii Rosie: https://www.history.com/articles/rosie-the-riveter https://www.history.com/articles/universal-childcare-world-war-ii https://www.raisingofamerica.org/flag/flag/add_to_toolkit/daf2d22262136977d5a4ea7760ad48d0.html Effects on the kids: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/689478?af=R& https://librarycatalog.ohs.org/O90000/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=1342951 https://www.ohs.org/blog/women-wwii-childcare-workers.cfm
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