Black Sailor, White Navy : : Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era / / John Darrell Sherwood.
It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early ‘70s: the Vietnam War or America’s turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 14 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Storm Warning
- Glossary
- 1 The Black Sailor: Chambermaid to the Braid and Nothing More
- 2 Racial Unrest Strikes the Army and Marines
- 3 The Zumwalt Revolution
- 4 Kitty Hawk: The Pot Begins to Boil
- 5 Blow Off: The Kitty Hawk Riot
- 6 More Unrest: The Hassayampa Riot
- 7 The Sit-down Strike on the Constellation
- 8 Negotiations with the Protesters: A Comedy of Errors
- 9 The Hicks Subcommittee Hearings: Questions and Motives
- 10 Violence on Nearly Every Ship: Race Riots after Constellation
- 11 The Struggle to Eliminate Bias in the Fleet
- 12 From Awareness to Affirmation
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Navy Ranks and Ratings, 1973
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author