The Integration of the US Armed Forces
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Morris J. MacGregor. The Integration of the US Armed Forces
The Integration of the US Armed Forces
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Tables
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
The Armed Forces Before 1940
Civil Rights and the Law in 1940
To Segregate Is To Discriminate
CHAPTER 2
World War II: The Army
A War Policy: Reaffirming Segregation
Segregation and Efficiency
The Need for Change
Internal Reform: Amending Racial Practices
Two Exceptions
CHAPTER 3
World War II: The Navy
Development of a Wartime Policy
A Segregated Navy
Progressive Experiments
Forrestal Takes the Helm
CHAPTER 4
World War II: The Marine Corps and the Coast Guard
The First Black Marines
New Roles for Black Coast Guardsmen
CHAPTER 5
A Postwar Search
Black Demands
The Army's Grand Review
The Navy's Informal Inspection
CHAPTER 6
New Directions
The Gillem Board Report
Integration of the General Service
The Marine Corps
CHAPTER 7
A Problem of Quotas
The Quota in Practice
Broader Opportunities
Assignments
A New Approach
The Quota System: An Assessment
CHAPTER 8
Segregation's Consequences
Discipline and Morale Among Black Troops
Improving the Status of the Segregated Soldier
Discrimination and the Postwar Army
Segregation in Theory and Practice
Segregation: An Assessment
CHAPTER 9
The Postwar Navy
The Steward's Branch
Black Officers
Public Image and the Problem of Numbers
CHAPTER 10
The Postwar Marine Corps
Racial Quotas and Assignments
Recruitment
Segregation and Efficiency
Toward Integration
CHAPTER 11
The Postwar Air Force
Segregation and Efficiency
Impulse for Change
CHAPTER 12
The President Intervenes
The Truman Administration and Civil Rights
Civil Rights and the Department of Defense
Executive Order 9981
CHAPTER 13
Service Interests Versus Presidential Intent
Public Reaction to Executive Order 9981
The Army: Segregation on the Defensive
A Different Approach
The Navy: Business as Usual
Adjustments in the Marine Corps
The Air Force Plans for Limited Integration
CHAPTER 14
The Fahy Committee Versus the Department of Defense
The Committee's Recommendations
A Summer of Discontent
Assignments
Quotas
An Assessment
CHAPTER 15
The Role of the Secretary of Defense. 1949–1951
Overseas Restrictions
Congressional Concerns
CHAPTER 16
Integration in the Air Force and the Navy
The Air Force, 1949–1951
The Navy and Executive Order 9981
CHAPTER 17
The Army Integrates
Race and Efficiency: 1950
Training
Performance of Segregated Units
Final Arguments
Integration of the Eighth Army
Integration of the European and Continental Commands
CHAPTER 18
Integration of the Marine Corps
Impetus for Change
Assignments
CHAPTER 19
A New Era Begins
The Civil Rights Revolution
Limitations on Executive Order 9981
Integration of Navy Shipyards
Dependent Children and Integrated Schools
CHAPTER 20
Limited Response to Discrimination
The Kennedy Administration and Civil Rights
The Department of Defense, 1961–1963
Discrimination Off the Military Reservation
Reserves and Regulars: A Comparison
CHAPTER 21
Equal Treatment and Opportunity Redefined
The Secretary Makes a Decision
The Gesell Committee
Reaction to a New Commitment
The Gesell Committee: Final Report
CHAPTER 22
Equal Opportunity in the Military Community
Creating a Civil Rights Apparatus
Fighting Discrimination Within the Services
CHAPTER 23
From Voluntary Compliance to Sanctions
Development of Voluntary Action Programs
Civil Rights, 1964–1966
The Civil Rights Act and Voluntary Compliance
The Limits of Voluntary Compliance
CHAPTER 24
Conclusion
Why the Services Integrated
How the Services Integrated, 1946–1954
Equal Treatment and Opportunity
Note on Sources
Official Archival Material
Personal Collections
Interviews
Printed Materials
Footnote. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
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By 1943 Negroes within and without the War Department had just about exhausted arguments for a policy change. After two years of trying, Judge Hastie came to believe that change was possible only in response to "strong and manifest public opinion." He concluded that he would be far more useful as a private citizen who could express his views freely and publicly than he was as a War Department employee, bound to conform to official policy. Quitting the department, Hastie joined the increasingly vocal black organizations in a sustained attack on the Army's segregation policy, an attack that was also being translated into political action by the major civil rights organizations. In 1943, a full year before the national elections, representatives of twenty-five civil rights groups met and formulated the demands they would make of the presidential candidates: full integration (some groups tempered this demand by calling for integrated units of volunteers); abolition of racial quotas; abolition of segregation in recreational and other Army facilities; abolition of blood plasma segregation; development of an educational program in race relations in the Army; greater black participation in combat forces; and the progressive removal of black troops from areas where they were subject to disrespect, abuse, and even violence.64
The Army could not afford to ignore these demands completely, as Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Judge Hastie's successor, pointed out.65 The political situation indicated that the racial policy of the armed forces would be an issue in the next national election. Recalling the changes forced on the Army as a result of political pressures applied before the 1940 election, Gibson predicted that actions that might now seem impolitic to the Army and the White House might not seem so during the next campaign when the black vote could influence the outcome in several important states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Michigan. Already the Chicago Tribune and other anti-administration groups were trying to encourage black protest in terms not always accurate but nonetheless believable to the black voter. Gibson suggested that the Army act before the political pressure became even more intense.66
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