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Article: Grad student works to add color to military history: Black World War II veterans have largely been left out of historical accounts, but one historian is attempting to change that.(noteworthy news)(Lisa Daniels)
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
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- April 5, 2007
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.
A few years ago, historian Lisa Daniels discovered a fascinating morsel of buried history in her own family.
Daniels learned that her grandmother, Rita Hernandez, was a civilian riveter and blueprint reader during World War II, serving on the USS Franklin Roosevelt in the Brooklyn shipyard.
As a Black woman, Hernandez' visage would never be immortalized in posters like "Rosie the Riveter." She rarely talked with her family about her wartime service, in part because it had never garnered much recognition from anyone else.
The discovery of her grandmother's service to America led Daniels to ask a couple of big ...