The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

The Freeman Field Mutiny occurred in 1945, in which African-American members of the 477th Bombardment Group attempted to integrate an all-white officers ' club at Freeman Army Air Corps Base.

As a lieutenant in the 477th, he played a role in the Freeman Field Mutiny in which 162 African-American officers were arrested for resisting segregation at a base near Seymour, Indiana in 1945.

Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African-American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has published continuously since the autumn of 1945.

Billboard started making a separate list of hit records for African-American music in October 1942 with the " Harlem Hit Parade ", which was changed in 1945 to " Race Records ", and then in 1949 to " Rhythm and Blues Records ".

* John H. White ( photojournalist ) ( born 1945 ), African-American photographer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

In fall 1945, Webster College responded to pressure by admitting Irene Thomas, a Catholic African-American woman from St. Louis, as a music major.

In 1945 his father was offered the position as the first African-American president of Lincoln University, and the family moved up North.

Pamphlets were printed and distributed, and editorials denouncing the trial appeared from African-American publishers in January 1945.

In March 1945 a Seabee battalion of 1, 000 African-American men staged a hunger strike at their base in Port Hueneme, California, in protest of discriminatory conditions.

In 1945 the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion ( the only all African-American, all-female battalion during World War II ) worked in England and France, making them the first black female battalion to travel overseas.

The first five African-American women entered the SPARs in 1945: Olivia Hooker, D. Winifred Byrd, Julia Mosley, Yvonne Cumberbatch, and Aileen Cooke.

This regard accounted in part for Almond's promotion to Major General ahead of most of his peers and subsequent command of the 92nd Infantry Division, made of almost exclusively African-American soldiers, a position he held from its formation in October 1942 until August 1945.

Rose Stone ( or Rosie Stone ) ( born Rosemary Stewart, March 21, 1945, in Vallejo, California ) is an African-American singer and keyboardist.

* Harold Douglas Martin 1920 — African-American educator and soldier who directed the Ground School at Tuskegee Air Field from 1943 till his death in 1945.

Arrested African-American officers of the 477th Bombardment Group at Freeman Field, Indiana, await transport to Godman Field, Kentucky, April 1945.

An example of this is that during a down time of jazz dancing from 1945 – 1954, when big bands and dance halls were declining, the vernacular of the dance followed less jazz music and leaned more toward rock and roll, creating moves like " The Monkey " and " The Jerk ".

Gardner's second marriage was brief and to jazz musician and band leader Artie Shaw, from 1945 to 1946.

Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.

Anthony Tillmon " Tony " Williams ( December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997 ) was an American jazz drummer.

Dodds is perhaps the first jazz drummer to record unaccompanied: in 1945 he recorded two solos for Circle Records, and the next year recorded a series of solos and reminiscences for Folkways Records.

" When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945 ," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, " drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.

Roach played on many of Parker's most important records, including the Savoy November 1945 session, a turning point in recorded jazz.

Soon after World War II, Freed landed broadcasting jobs at smaller radio stations, including WKST ( New Castle, PA ); WKBN ( Youngstown, OH ); and WAKR ( Akron, OH ), where, in 1945, he became a local favorite for playing hot jazz and pop recordings.

* October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer ( died 1945 )

As a jazz artist he won the 1944 Esquire magazine Gold Award, was highly rated in the Metronome polls of 1937-42 and 1945, and was selected for the Playboy magazine All Star Band, 1957-60.

Keith Jarrett ( born May 8, 1945 ) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.

* " Tampico " is the title of a 1945 song composed by US artist Gene Roland and produced by jazz musician and conductor Stan Kenton, with lead vocals by June Christy.

* Tony Williams ( 1945 – 1997 ), jazz drummer, grew up in Roxbury

Richard M. Jones, born Richard Marigny Jones, ( 13 June 1892 – 8 December 1945 ) was a jazz pianist, composer, band leader, and record producer.

After the World War II and during Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 — 1949 ) and afterwards, kroncong was associated with patriotism, since many of Indonesian poets and patriotic songs authors uses kroncong and somewhat jazz fusion as the genre of their works.

From 1945 through 1967 he ran his own New York jazz club, first located on West 52nd Street near Sixth Avenue, on the present site of the CBS headquarters building, then later, on the south side of East 56th Street, east of Second Avenue.

Alfred " Tubby " Hall ( October 12, 1895 – May 13, 1945 ) was a jazz drummer.

Mick Goodrick ( b. Sharon, PA, June 9, 1945 ) is an American post bop jazz guitarist and educator most noteworthy for his work with vibraphonist Gary Burton's band from 1973 to 1976, where for part of that time he was playing alongside guitarist Pat Metheny.

* Michael Moore ( bassist ) ( born 1945 ), American jazz artist

Ernie Krivda ( born February 6, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio as Krvda Ernö ) is a jazz saxophone player.

According to American music critic Stanley Crouch, Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker.

Daniel Carter ( born 1945 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania ) is an American free jazz saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s.

But jazz had always gone through changes and in 1945 we were in the middle of another one.

* 1945 – Sandi Griffiths, American singer

* 1945 – Steve Martin, American actor, singer, writer, and producer

* 1945 – Sandro de América, Argentine singer and actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1945 – Jürgen Drews, German singer

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* 1945 – Ronnie Tober, Dutch singer

* 1945 – Stu Cook, American singer and musician ( Creedence Clearwater Revival, Southern Pacific, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited )

* 1945 – Robert Knight, American singer

* 1945 – Dick Rivers, French singer and actor ( Les Chats Sauvages )

* 1945 – Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter, and writer

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

* 2009 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer ( The Alan Parsons Project ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – Bette Midler, American actress and singer

* 1945 – Lemmy, British singer, bassist ( Motörhead )

* 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor ( The Monkees )( d. 2012 )

* 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer ( Ladysmith Black Mambazo ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – Peter Criss, American drummer and singer ( Kiss )

* Dee Dee Sharp ( born Dione LaRue, 1945 ), American R & B singer

* 2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor ( The Monkees ) ( b. 1945 )

* 2009 – Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – Oliver, American singer ( d. 2000 )

* 1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor ( d. 2004 )

* 1945 – Gérard Lenorman, French singer

* 1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish singer ( Sweet ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1945 – Ramon Jacinto, Filipino singer, guitarist, and businessman, founded the Rajah Broadcasting Network