The population of San Francisco was 634,000 in 1940 and by 1950, it had grown to 774,821. The populations of outlying towns doubled. In 1940, there were only 4,864 blacks in San Francisco, making up less than 1% of the population. By 1950, that number had grown to 43,821.
At the same time, the impact on those of Asiatic descent was mixed. Chinese-Americans fared well during the war (since China was on the U.S. side. However, many Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interred.
The economy of the Bay Area boomed as over $6 billion in war contracts were awarded to businesses.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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