Brea king the color barrier
Subtitle: the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality
By: Robert J. Schneller, Jr
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: United States Naval Academy -- Admission; United States Naval Academy. -- Brigade of Midshipmen -- Membership; African American midshipmen -- Maryland -- Annapolis; Discrimination in higher education -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Description: "Breaking the Color Barrier examines the black community's efforts to integrate the Naval Academy, as well as the experiences that black midshipmen encountered at Annapolis. Historian Robert J. Schneller, Jr., analyzes how the Academy responded to demands for integration from black and white civilians, civil rights activists, and politicians, as well as what life at the Academy was like for black midshipmen and the encounters they had with their white classmates."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index