they were luaclg ago ship a day under a flawed social system. henry kaiser had inadvertently brought into richmond into a place that had a population and worked for 98,000 people who were largely black and white southerners. he brought that complete system of segregation. >> having experienced the sudden segregation in richmond during the war, she feels it's important to include that in the museum. >> what people don't realize because we see pictures of masses of people coming out of the shipyards. photographers to see those pictures are well integrated racially. they are revising history. because the way people were hired, first to go into the industries were the men and boys who were too young to go. it wasn't until 1943 black men came into work force. not until late, 1944 women were bers. numbers. >> although betty didn't work in the shipyard she got a job filing parts for a union, known as a jim crow union because of laws that kept it segregated. >> as a young woman of color i could have been working this agriculture or union working in the