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Breaking the color barrier : the U.S. Naval Academy's first black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality

"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
New York University Press, New York, ©2005
xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780814740132, 0814740138
56733155
pt. I. The glorious failure : Reconstruction and the Naval Academy, 1872-1876. "Not
their equals socially"
"Speechless walls as companions"
pt. II. Persona non grata : Jim Crow and the Naval Academy, 1877-1941. Segregation by occupation
"Railroaded out of Navy"
"They shall not pass"
pt. III. Breaking the color barrier : World War II and the first black graduate, 1942-1949. Racial policy "revolution"
The greater challenge
Demerits by the bucketful
Success and celebrity
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