Bibliograph

Black sailor, white Navy, racial unrest in the fleet during the Vietnam War era, John Darrell Sherwood

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Black sailor, white Navy, racial unrest in the fleet during the Vietnam War era, John Darrell Sherwood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-330) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Black sailor, white Navy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

77504274

Responsibility statement

John Darrell Sherwood

Sub title

racial unrest in the fleet during the Vietnam War era

Table Of Contents

Prologue: storm warning -- The black sailor : chambermaid to the braid and nothing more -- Racial unrest strikes the Army and Marines -- The Zumwalt revolution -- Kitty Hawk : the pot begins to boil -- Blow off : the Kitty Hawl riot -- More unrest : the Hassayampa riot -- The sit-down strike on the Constellation -- Negotiations with the protestors : a comedy of errors -- The Hicks Subcommittee hearings : questions and motives -- Violence on nearly every ship : race riots after Constellation -- The struggle to eliminate bias in the fleet -- From awareness to affirmation -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Navy ranks and ratings, 1973 -- Bibliography

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