Integration Of The Armed Forces 1940-1965 Author: Morris J. MacGregor, Jr

About this eBook

Author

MacGregor, Morris J., 1931-

Title

Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Shell, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

UB: Military science: Military administration

Subject

United States -- Race relations

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20587

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20587

Release Date

February 15, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.INTEGRATION OF THE ARMED FORCES 1940-1965
2. 2.INTEGRATION OF THE ARMED FORCES 1940-1965 — Defense Historical Studies Committee (as of 6 April 1979) — Department of the Army Historical Advisory Committee (as of 6 April 1979)
3. 3.Foreword
4. 4.The Author
5. 5.Preface
6. 6.Contents — Illustrations — Tables — INTEGRATION OF THE ARMED FORCES 1940-1965 — CHAPTER 1 — The Armed Forces Before 1940 — Civil Rights and the Law in 1940 — To Segregate Is To Discriminate — CHAPTER 2 — A War Policy: Reaffirming Segregation — Segregation and Efficiency — The Need for Change — Internal Reform: Amending Racial Practices — Two Exceptions — CHAPTER 3 — Development of a Wartime Policy — A Segregated Navy — Progressive Experiments — Forrestal Takes the Helm — CHAPTER 4 — The First Black Marines — New Roles for Black Coast Guardsmen — CHAPTER 5 — Black Demands — The Army's Grand Review — The Navy's Informal Inspection — CHAPTER 6 — The Gillem Board Report — Integration of the General Service — The Marine Corps — CHAPTER 7 — The Quota in Practice — Broader Opportunities — Assignments — A New Approach — The Quota System: An Assessment — CHAPTER 8 — Discipline and Morale Among Black Troops — Improving the Status of the Segregated Soldier — Discrimination and the Postwar Army — Segregation in Theory and Practice — Segregation: An Assessment — CHAPTER 9 — The Steward's Branch — Black Officers — Public Image and the Problem of Numbers — CHAPTER 10 — Racial Quotas and Assignments — Recruitment — Segregation and Efficiency — Toward Integration — CHAPTER 11 — Segregation and Efficiency — Impulse for Change — CHAPTER 12 — The Truman Administration and Civil Rights — Civil Rights and the Department of Defense — Executive Order 9981 — CHAPTER 13 — Public Reaction to Executive Order 9981 — The Army: Segregation on the Defensive — A Different Approach — The Navy: Business as Usual — Adjustments in the Marine Corps — The Air Force Plans for Limited Integration — CHAPTER 14 — The Committee's Recommendations — A Summer of Discontent — Assignments — Quotas — An Assessment — CHAPTER 15 — Overseas Restrictions — Congressional Concerns — CHAPTER 16 — The Air Force, 1949-1951 — The Navy and Executive Order 9981 — CHAPTER 17 — Race and Efficiency: 1950 — Training — Performance of Segregated Units — Final Arguments — Integration of the Eighth Army — Integration of the European and Continental Commands — CHAPTER 18 — Impetus for Change — Assignments — CHAPTER 19 — The Civil Rights Revolution — Limitations on Executive Order 9981 — Integration of Navy Shipyards — Dependent Children and Integrated Schools — CHAPTER 20 — The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights — The Department of Defense, 1961-1963 — Discrimination Off the Military Reservation — Reserves and Regulars: A Comparison — CHAPTER 21 — The Secretary Makes a Decision — The Gesell Committee — Reaction to a New Commitment — The Gesell Committee: Final Report — CHAPTER 22 — Creating a Civil Rights Apparatus — Fighting Discrimination Within the Services — CHAPTER 23 — Development of Voluntary Action Programs — Civil Rights, 1964-1966 — The Civil Rights Act and Voluntary Compliance — The Limits of Voluntary Compliance — CHAPTER 24 — Why the Services Integrated — How the Services Integrated, 1946-1954 — Equal Treatment and Opportunity — Note on Sources — Official Archival Material — Personal Collections — Interviews — Printed Materials
7. 7.Index — U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1981 0-305-168

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