The GI Bill

The GI Bill- The GI Bill was used to provide educational and occupational opportunities to veterans of WWII returning from the war to help spur the economy. This bill is mentioned in Brodkin's How The Jews Became White on p. 44. She says the bill provided opportunities to those males considered white and did not aid the black war veterans returning home and it discriminated them. The GI Bill unfairly gave white Americans of European origin or Jewish origin advtanges over other races. The bill redefined the definition of "white" to include Jews and southern and eastern Europeans, who were previously thought of as not white.