page_title: Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces
section_title: United States Navy
hierarchical_section_title: Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces / United States Navy
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert McCray and Louis Hardwick, Two Sailors in the US Navy, 1916
context_page_description: Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces, which has included separation of white and non-white American troops, quotas, restriction of people of color troops to support roles, and outright bans on blacks and other people of color serving in the military, has been a part of the military history of the United States since the American Revolution. Each branch of the Armed Forces has historically had different policies regarding racial segregation. Although Executive Order 9981 officially ended segregation in the Armed Forces in 1948, following World War II, some forms of racial segregation continued until after the Korean War. The US government complied with an Icelandic government request not to station black soldiers on the US base in Keflavík, Iceland until the 1970s and 1980s when black soldiers began to be stationed in Iceland.
caption: Robert McCray and Louis Hardwick, two sailors in the US Navy lost at sea, 1917-18
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