In the South, virtually no black veteran was given access to skilled employment by the USES, despite having had occupational training and work in the military. By channeling African American veterans into “black jobs” in the North as well as the South, the agency reinforced the existing division of labor by race.104 By October 1946, 6,500 former soldiers had been placed in non-farm jobs by the USES in Mississippi; 86 percent of the skilled and semi-skilled positions were filled by whites, 92 percent of the unskilled by blacks.
