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Rosie the Riveter at the Richmond yards
1942
Richmond, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Four shipyards built 747 ships, one of them assembled in four days as a stunt. The workforce was heavily female and Black, drawn from the South, and the housing built for them shaped Bay Area segregation for decades.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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