Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units. |
Contents
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THE MARINE CORPS AND THE COAST GUARD | 99 |
A POSTWAR SEARCH | 123 |
NEW DIRECTIONS | 152 |
A PROBLEM OF QUOTAS | 176 |
SEGREGATIONS CONSEQUENCES | 206 |
THE POSTWAR NAVY | 234 |
Public Image and the Problem of Numbers | 248 |
President John F Kennedy and President Jorge Allessandri | 509 |
Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara | 516 |
EQUAL TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITY REDEFINED | 530 |
Adam Yarmolinsky | 532 |
The Gesell Committee Meets With the President | 541 |
Alfred B Fitt | 547 |
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE MILITARY COMMUNITY | 556 |
Arriving in Vietnam | 560 |
THE POSTWAR MARINE CORPS | 267 |
THE POSTWAR AIR FORCE | 277 |
THE PRESIDENT INTERVENES | 291 |
SERVICE INTERESTS VERSUS PRESIDENTIAL INTENT | 315 |
A Different Approach | 326 |
Adjustments in the Marine Corps | 334 |
THE FAHY COMMITTEE VERSUS THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE | 343 |
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INTEGRATION IN THE AIR FORCE AND THE NAVY | 397 |
THE ARMY INTEGRATES | 428 |
Performance of Segregated Units | 436 |
Integration of the Eighth Army | 442 |
INTEGRATION OF THE MARINE CORPS | 460 |
A NEW ERA BEGINS | 473 |
LIMITED RESPONSE TO DISCRIMINATION | 501 |
Listening to the Squad Leader | 567 |
Supplying the Seventh Fleet | 576 |
FROM VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE TO SANCTIONS | 581 |
Fighter Pilots on the Line | 583 |
Medical Examination | 589 |
Submarine Tender Duty | 600 |
First Aid | 606 |
CONCLUSION | 609 |
Marine Engineers in Vietnam | 613 |
Booby Trap Victim from Company B 47th Infantry | 619 |
NOTE ON SOURCES | 625 |
Archives and Records Service with the exception of the pictures on pages 6 and | 630 |
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armed forces Army's assigned battalions black enlisted black marines black officers black servicemen black soldiers black troops black units BuPers Bureau of Naval civil rights civilian CMH files Coast Guard CofS commanders copy in CMH DASD Department of Defense discrimination Division duty equal opportunity equal treatment Executive Order 9981 Fahy Committee FC file federal Forrestal GenRecsNav Gesell Gillem Board Granger Infantry integration Kennedy Library Lester Granger Marine Corps McNamara Memo NAACP National Naval Personnel Navy Navy's Negro Manpower Negro Personnel Negro Troops number of black number of Negroes organization percent postwar President President's problem quota race racial policy racial quota recommendations schools SecDef SecNav Secretary of Defense segregated units Steward's Branch stewards tion treatment and opportunity Truman Truman Gibson Utilization of Negro War Department white units World War II