The double v
Subtitle: how war, protest, and Harry Truman desegregated America's military
By: Rawn James, Jr
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781608196081
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; African American Participation; Law and legislation; Political and social views; United States. President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services; United States; Segregation; World War, 1939-1945; History; African Americans; African American soldiers; Armed Forces
Description: Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cause of liberty; title: The first to come and the last to leave; title: The only real neutral; title: Report to God the reason why; title: Tragedy and triumph : Houston and Des Moines; title: The travels of Emmett J. Scott and the travails of Colonel Charles Young; title: France by way of Carolina; title: The lost children; title: Disillusioned by Armistice; title: Old draft in a new day; title: Politics unusual; title: Follow the gleam; title: Some minor county office; title: Thundering resentment in the voice of God; title: The U.S.S. Miller; title: The double v; title: Harvest of disorder : the Army; title: The Army Air Corps; title: "Entitled to a showdown" : the Navy Under Secretary Frank Knox and the Truman committee; title: The Navy under Secretary Forrestal and the Marine Corps; title: From senator to vice-president to president in 100 days; title: V-day deferred; title: The Noah's ark committee; title: The blinding of Isaac Woodard and the signing of Executive Order 9981; title: Freedom to serve; title: The museum mirror.