By Aminn Hassam at http://wwiishipyarddaycare.tripod.com.
Kaiser Company built day care centers for mothers working in its West Coast shipyards, especially in Richmond, California, and Portland, Oregon.
To maintain a profit and meet war production deadlines and funded by the US Maritime Commission, kaiser established 24-hour-a-day children's centers.
Portland had two, serving nearly 40,000 children.
Black parents at both centers were uncomfortable leaving their kids with white teachers.
By the end of the war, kaiser Centers and 3100 other state and federal funded centers had served between 600,000 and 1.6 million children.
And, We definitely Still Have It Today, Especially with All the Mothers Working to Support Their Families. --Cooter
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