This is a detail from a photograph in the Washington State History Museum. During World War II women worked in U.S. industry in unprecedented numbers and many factories were racially integrated for the first time. At the outset of the war the country was woefully ill prepared to fight any war much less one on multiple fronts worldwide. Within a couple of years output of ships, tanks, rifles, and other materiel was astonishing. The military won the war but factory workers fueled the effort.
Honoring Martin Luther King today as well as the legions of others who have fought for social justice.