African Americans and the Manhattan Project, Richland, WA (1942-1945)
Between the years of 1942 and 1944 around fifteen thousand blacks and fifty thousand whites were recruited to the Manhattan/ Hanford Project in Richland, Washington. The federal government required government contractor, DuPont, to keep the number of black construction workers on the project between […] … Read MoreAfrican Americans and the Manhattan Project, Richland, WA (1942-1945)