How did a war fought to bring "essential human freedoms" to the world fail to protect the home-front liberties of blacks, Indians, Japanese-Americans, and Mexican-Americans? 

 

How the war failed to protect the;

blacks - were discriminated against with GI bill of rights and Second great migration

Indians - 25k of them served in army, issue of code talkers as well as issues on own declaration of war against axis powers. Also, there were issues of violations of their right to speak their own language and they were even forced off their lands.

Japanese-Americans -every Japanese person was viewed as a potential spy. They was then the Executive order 9066 february 1942 which had devastating effects on them . Interment camps revealed how easily war can undermine basic freedoms

Mexican-Americans - Bracero program 1942 zoot suit riots of 1943

Step-by-step explanation

The black Americans suffered a great deal. Most of the Black Americans in the military were left to do noncombat jobs. They sought benefits through the GI Bill, but were still subjected to discrimination as they had to attend segregated colleges and had to limit their job training to unskilled work. During the second great migration, Africans were discriminated against. They suffered poor conditions causing them to migrate elsewhere.

As Indian Americans joined the army forces during the World War I and World War II, they were prohibited to use their language. Whenever they talked in their language they were regarded as code talkers since the whites could not understand them. They were even forced out of their lands, relocated and confined into reservations.

The Japanese Americans on the other hand were regarded as potential spies. Anyone with the Japanese dissent was were interred in isolated camps through the Executive order 9066 of February 1942 which saw them confined in internment camps. They were not allowed to go out of the camps for any reason, were beaten up and kept under poor conditions.

The Bracero program, which the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement, guaranteed decent living conditions and a minimum wage for Mexican Americans. However, the zoot suit riots of 1943 saw to it that the Mexican Americans suffered by the hands of servicemen as they were attacked for wearing flamboyant clothing. They were stripped of their zoot suits on the spot, the zoots were urinated on and even burnt in the streets.