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  2. Breaking the color barrier: the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality

Breaking the color barrier: the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality

Robert John Schneller c2005 © Public Domain
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  • 9780814740132 (hardcover)
  • 9780814740552 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • PART I The Glorious Failure: Reconstruction and the Naval Academy, 1872-1876
    • 1 "Not...Their Equals Socially" (page 3)
    • 2 "Speechless Walls as Companions" (page 28)
  • PART II Persona Non Grata: Jim Crow and the Naval Academy, 1877-1941
    • 3 Segregation by Occupation (page 49)
    • 4 "Railroaded Out of Navy" (page 81)
    • 5 "They Shall Not Pass" (page 111)
  • PART III Breaking the Color Barrier: World War II and the First Black Graduate, 1942-1949
    • 6 Racial Policy "Revolution" (page 137)
    • 7 The Greater Challenge (page 166)
    • 8 Demerits by the Bucketful (page 197)
    • 9 Success and Celebrity (page 235)
  • Conclusion (page 254)
  • Notes (page 259)
  • Bibliography (page 305)
  • Index (page 321)
  • About the Author (page 331)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 93.1 (Jun. 2006): 284 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4486200
HEQ 46.4 (Winter 2006): 672-673 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20462130
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