America, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bond pearl harbor. There after he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer area he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy but april 1942 and he joins the navy. He is sent down to cap annapolis where he goes through an officer Training Program then in North Carolina as an athletic officer training pilots in physical activity. He grows bored with that quickly. Almost as quickly as he is down there, he is writing letters to people he knows in washington dc , he is fortunate to find a person who can help them. He gets assigned to an Aircraft Carrier that is being built. The u. S. Monterey or monterey. Ford is responsible for putting the sailors through calisthenics. He is the athletic officer aboard this it. He is also the gunnery officer grade he has a responsibility for gun crews on the aft end of the ship. They get to the pacific in late 1943 and almost immediately are thr
Begin his career as an attorney. We are at the gerald r. Ford Residential Museum in grand rapids, michigan. We are in the gallery where he is beginning his professional career. It is not especially clear even to him, because at the same time that he is establishing hislop thehis law practice he is , applying to become a field agent for the f. B. I. He wants to be a gman. He is writing letters and toward the end of 1941, trying to figure out what the status of his application is. As he is in grand rapids in 1941, he finds himself, along with america, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bomb pearl harbor. Quickly thereafter, he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer. He sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy. By april, 1942, he has joined the navy. He is commissioned as an infant the mesh incent. He is sent to annapolis where he goes through an officer Training Program then in North Carolina as an athletic officer t
Of artifacts and a lot of history to cover and the last African American to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901 and then its a long time before another African American comes into the house and we have a couple of really rare artifacts from the 1920s and 30s but before i launch into them tell us about how he got into congress. Theres a long period. Almost three decades after he leaves congress where theres no African Americans either in the house or the senate and that has everything to do with the books and the way that that changes over time is theres a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would be called the great migration and that begins depending on which historian you talk to 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as theres a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs occupied by men that have gone off to fight in the war and y
Of artifacts and a lot of history to cover and the last African American to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901 and then its a long time before another African American comes into the house and we have a couple of really rare artifacts from the 1920s and 30s but before i launch into them tell us about how he got into congress. Theres a long period. Almost three decades after he leaves congress where theres no African Americans either in the house or the senate and that has everything to do with the books and the way that that changes over time is theres a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would be called the great migration and that begins depending on which historian you talk to 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as theres a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs occupied by men that have gone off to fight in the war and y
Of artifacts and a lot of history to cover and the last African American to be elected in the 19th century leaves in 1901 and then its a long time before another African American comes into the house and we have a couple of really rare artifacts from the 1920s and 30s but before i launch into them tell us about how he got into congress. Theres a long period. Almost three decades after he leaves congress where theres no African Americans either in the house or the senate and that has everything to do with the books and the way that that changes over time is theres a critical thing going on in the south where African Americans leave the south and move northward as part of a multidecade movement that would be called the great migration and that begins depending on which historian you talk to 1890s and runs through world war ii. It picks up momentum around world war i as theres a need in the north to fill industrial jobs and jobs occupied by men that have gone off to fight in the war and y