Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Integration of the Negro Into the United States Navy, 1776-1947
Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Integration of the Negro Into the U.S. Navy, 1776-1947
Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American seamen
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Integration of the Negro Into the U.S. Navy
Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Intergration of the Negro Into the United States Navy, 1776-1947
Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Integration of the Negro Into the United States Navy, 1776-1917
Author: Dennis Denmark NelsonAfrican-Americans in Defense of the Nation
Author: James T. ControvichPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810874806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
While the role of the African American in American history has been written about extensively, it is often difficult to locate the wealth of material that has been published. African-Americans in Defense of the Nation builds on a long list of early bibliographies concerning the subject, bringing together a broad spectrum of titles related to the African-American participation in America's wars. It covers both military exploits—as African Americans have been involved in every American conflict since the Revolution—and their participation in the homefront support.
Social Reform in the United States Navy, 1798-1862
Author: Harold D LangleyPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612517757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In the decades before the American Civil War various political, social, and religious groups agitated for reforms in American society that would be in keeping with its professed democratic and national principles. One such organization was the American Seaman’s Friend Society, which lobbied for improvements in the enlistment, discipline, and treatment of sailors in the Merchant Marine and the Navy. Their causes were embraced by some naval officers, members of Congress, and a few Secretaries of the Navy. This history explores the circumstances and people in and out of the Navy who eventually convinced Congress to enact reforms to improve the conditions of service of naval enlisted men and to lay the foundation for a career enlisted force.
Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement
Author: Thomas W. CutrerPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623496039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
On the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, Ship’s Cook Third Class Doris “Dorie” Miller heard the alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several torpedoes dropped from Japanese aircraft had struck the American battleship. Miller hastily made his way to a central point and was soon called to the bridge by Lt. Com. Doir C. Johnson to assist the mortally wounded ship’s captain, Mervyn Bennion. Miller then joined two others in loading and firing an unmanned anti-aircraft machine gun—a weapon that, as an African American in a segregated military, Miller had not been trained to operate. But he did, firing the weapon on attacking Japanese aircraft until the .50-caliber gun ran out of ammunition. For these actions, Miller was later awarded the Navy Cross, the third-highest naval award for combat gallantry. Historians Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish have not only painstakingly reconstructed Miller’s inspiring actions on December 7. They also offer for the first time a full biography of Miller placed in the larger context of African American service in the United States military and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. Like so many sailors and soldiers in World War II, Doris Miller’s life was cut short. Just two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miller was aboard the USS Liscome Bay when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine. But the name—and symbolic image—of Dorie Miller lived on. As Cutrer and Parrish conclude, “Dorie Miller’s actions at Pearl Harbor, and the legend that they engendered, were directly responsible for helping to roll back the navy’s then-to-fore unrelenting policy of racial segregation and prejudice, and, in the chain of events, helped to launch the civil rights movement of the 1960s that brought an end to the worst of America’s racial intolerance.”
The U.S. Army and the Negro
Author: US Army Military History Research CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The U.S. Army and the Negro
Author: John SlonakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description