The Double v : : how Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
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The cause of liberty -- The first to come and the last to leave -- The only real neutral -- Report to God the reason why -- Tragedy and triumph : Houston and Des Moines -- The travels of Emmett J. Scott and the travails of Colonel Charles Young -- France by way of Carolina -- The lost children -- Disillusioned by Armistice -- Old draft in a new day -- Politics unusual -- Follow the gleam -- Some minor county office -- Thundering resentment in the voice of God -- The U.S.S. Miller -- The double v -- Harvest of disorder : the Army -- The Army Air Corps -- "Entitled to a showdown" : the Navy Under Secretary Frank Knox and the Truman committee -- The Navy under Secretary Forrestal and the Marine Corps -- From senator to vice-president to president in 100 days -- V-day deferred -- The Noah's ark committee -- The blinding of Isaac Woodard and the signing of Executive Order 9981 -- Freedom to serve -- The museum mirror.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: viii, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781608196081
SUBJECTS
Truman, Harry S., -- 1884-1972 -- Political and social views.
United States. -- President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.
Segregation -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.
United States -- History -- 20th century.