At the Torpedo Factory
Art Center in Alexandria. VA. Somewhat of an oxymoron, with the torpedo you’ll be able to
see on this photograph together with artwork gallery and artwork shops. The US Naval Torpedo Station,
first constructed after World War I, had 5000 employees throughout World War II. The
manufacturing unit was not racially segregated, not like a lot of the remainder of Virginia. Bayard
Rustin and A Philip Randolph had been organizing a March on Washington to pressure FDR
to combine the conflict trade in 1941. The president accepted the petition however
stopped in need of integrating the armed forces. In 1948 the identical risk of a
March on Washington compelled Truman to combine the armed forces.
