Committed to integrating its air units and rated men in 1949, the Air staff quietly enlarged its objectives and broke up all its black units, thereby making the Air Force the first service to achieve total integration. There were several reasons for this rapid escalation in what was to have been a limited program. As devised by General Edwards and Colonel Marr of the Air staff the plan demanded that all black airmen in each command be conscientiously examined so that all might be properly reassigned, further trained, retained in segregated units, or dismissed. The removal of increasing numbers of eligible men from black units only hastened the end of those organizations, a tendency ratified by the trouble-free acceptance of the program by all involved.

The integration of the Army was more protracted. The Truman order in 1948 and the Fahy Committee, the White House group appointed to oversee the execution of that order, focused primarily on the segregated Army. There is little doubt that the President's action had a political dimension. Given the fact that the Army had become a major target of the President's own Civil Rights Commission and that it was a highly visible practitioner of segregation, the equal opportunity order would almost have had to be part of the President's plan to unite the nation's minorities behind his 1948 candidacy. The order was also a logical response to the threat of civil disobedience issued by A. Philip Randolph and endorsed by other civil rights advocates. In a matter of weeks after Truman issued his integration order, Randolph dropped his opposition to the 1948 draft law and his call for a boycott of the draft by Negroes.

It remained for the Fahy Committee to translate the President's order into a working program leading toward integration of the Army. Like Randolph and other activists, the committee quickly concluded that segregation was a denial of equal treatment and opportunity and that the executive order, therefore, was essentially a call for the (p. 617) services to integrate. After lengthy negotiations, the committee won from the Army an agreement to move progressively toward full integration. Gradual integration was disregarded, however, when the Army, fighting in Korea, was forced by a direct threat to the efficiency of its operations to begin wide-scale mixing of the races. Specifically, the proximate reason for the Army's integration in the Far East was the fact that General Ridgway faced a severe shortage of replacements for his depleted white units while accumulating a surplus of black replacements. So pressing was his need that even before permission was received from Washington integration had already begun on the battlefield. The reason for the rapid integration of the rest of the Army was more complicated. The example of Korea was persuasive, as was the need for a uniform policy, but beyond that the rapid modernization of the Army was making obsolete the large-scale labor units traditionally used by the Army to absorb much of its black quota. With these units disappearing, the Army had to find new jobs for the men, a task hopelessly complicated by segregation.

The postwar racial policy of the Marine Corps struck a curious compromise between that of the Army and of the Navy. Adopting the former's system of segregated units and the latter's rejection of the 10 percent racial quota, the corps was able to assign its small contingent of black marines to a few segregated noncombatant duties. But the policy of the corps was only practicable for its peacetime size, as its mobilization for Korea demonstrated. Even before the Army was forced to change, the Marine Corps, its manpower planners pressed to find trained men and units to fill its divisional commitment to Korea, quietly abandoned the rules on segregated service.

While progressives cited the military efficiency of integration, traditionalists used the efficiency argument to defend the racial status quo. In general, senior military officials had concluded on the basis of their World War II experience that large black units were ineffective, undependable in close combat, and best suited for supply assignments. Whatever their motives, the traditionalists had reached the wrong conclusion from their data. They were correct when they charged that, despite competent and even heroic performance on the part of some individuals and units, the large black combat units had, on average, performed poorly during the war. But the traditionalists failed, as they had failed after World War I, to see the reasons for this poor performance. Not the least of these were the benumbing discrimination suffered by black servicemen during training, the humiliations involved in their assignments, and the ineptitude of many of their leaders, who were most often white.

Above all, the postwar manpower planners drew the wrong conclusion from the fact that the average General Classification Test scores of men in World War II black units fell significantly below that of their white counterparts. The scores were directly related to the two groups' relative educational advantages which depended to a large extent on their economic status and the geographic region from which they came. This mental average of servicemen was a unit problem, for at all times the total number of white individuals who scored in low-aptitude categories IV and V greatly outnumbered black individuals in those categories. This greater number of less gifted white (p. 618) servicemen had been spread thinly throughout the services' thousands of white units where they caused no particular problem. The lesser number of Negroes with low aptitude, however, were concentrated in the relatively few black units, creating a serious handicap to efficient performance. Conversely, the contribution of talented black servicemen was largely negated by their frequent assignment to units with too many low-scoring men. Small units composed in the main of black specialists, such as the black artillery and armor units that served in the European theater during World War II, served with distinction, but these units were special cases where the effect of segregation was tempered by the special qualifications of the carefully chosen men. Segregation and not mental aptitude was the key to the poor performance of the large black units in World War II.



Postwar service policies ignored these facts and defended segregation in the name of military efficiency. In short, the armed forces had to make inefficiency seem efficient as they explained in paternalistic fashion that segregation was best for all concerned. "In general, the Negro is less well educated than his brother citizen that is white," General Eisenhower told the Senate Armed Forces Committee in 1948, "and if you make a complete amalgamation, what you are going to have is in every company the Negro is going to be relegated to the minor jobs ... because the competition is too rough."[24-6]

[Footnote 24-6: Quoted in Senate, Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Universal Military Training, 80th Cong., 2d sess., 1948, pp. 995-96.]

Competence in a great many skills became increasingly important for servicemen in the postwar period as the trend toward technical complexity and specialization continued in all the services. Differences in recruiting gave some services an advantage. The Navy and Air Force, setting stricter standards of enlistment, could fill their ranks with high-scoring volunteers and avoid enlisting large groups of low-scoring men, often black, who were eventually drafted for the Army. While this situation helped reduce the traditional opposition to integration in the Navy and Air Force, it made the Army more determined to retain separate black units to absorb the large number of low-scoring draftees it was obligated to take. A major factor in the eventual integration of the Army—and the single most significant contribution of the Secretary of Defense to that (p. 619) end—was George Marshall's decision to establish a parity of enlistment standards for the services. On the advice of his manpower assistant, Anna Rosenberg, Marshall abolished the special advantage enjoyed by the Navy and Air Force, making all the services share in the recruitment of low-scoring men. The common standard undercut the Army's most persuasive argument for restoring a racial quota and maintaining segregated units.



In the years from 1946 to 1954, then, several forces converged to bring about integration of the regular armed forces. Pressure from the civil rights advocates was one, idealistic leadership another. Most important, however, was the services' realization that segregation was an inefficient way to use the manpower provided by a democratic draft law or a volunteer system made democratic by the Secretary of Defense. Each service reached its conclusion separately, since each had a different problem in the efficient use of manpower and each had its own racial traditions. Accordingly, the services saw little need to exchange views, develop rivalries, or imitate one another's racial policies. There were two exceptions to this situation: both the Army and Air Force naturally considered the Navy's integration experience when they were formulating postwar policies, and the Navy and Air Force fought the Army's proposals to experiment with integrated units and institute a parity of enlistment standards.

Equal Treatment and Opportunity

Segregation officially ended in the active armed forces with the announcement of the Secretary of Defense in 1954 that the last all-black unit had been disbanded. In the little more than six years after President Truman's order, some quarter of a million blacks had been intermingled with whites in the nation's military units worldwide. These changes ushered in a brief era of good feeling during which the services and the civil rights advocates tended to overlook some forms of discrimination that persisted within the services. This tendency became even stronger in the early 1960's when the discrimination suffered by black servicemen in local communities dramatized the relative effectiveness of the equal treatment and opportunity policies on military installations. In July 1963, in the wake of another presidential investigation of racial equality (p. 620) in the armed forces, Secretary of Defense McNamara outlined a new racial policy. An extension of the forces that had produced the abolition of segregated military units, the new policy also vowed to carry the crusade for equal treatment and opportunity for black servicemen outside the military compound into the civilian community beyond. McNamara's 1963 directive became the model for subsequent racial orders in the Defense Department.

This enlargement of the department's concept of equal treatment and opportunity paralleled the rise of the modern civil rights movement, which was reaching its apogee in the mid-1960's. McNamara later acknowledged the influence of the civil rights activists on his department during this period. But the department's racial progress cannot be explained solely as a reaction to the pressures exerted by the civil rights movement. Several other factors lay behind the new and broader policy. The Defense Department was, for instance, under constant pressure from black officers and men who were not only reporting inequities in the newly integrated services and complaining of the remaining racial discrimination within the military community but were also demanding the department's assistance in securing their constitutional rights from the communities outside the military bases. This was particularly true in the fields of public education, housing, and places of entertainment.

The services as well as the Defense Department's manpower officials resisted these demands and continued in the early 1960's to limit their racial reforms to those necessary but exclusively internal matters most obviously connected with the efficient operation of their units. Reinforcing this resistance was the reluctance on the part of most commanders to break with tradition and interfere in what they considered community affairs. Nor had McNamara's early policy statements in response to servicemen's demands come to grips with the issue of discrimination in the civilian community. At the same time, some reformers in the Defense Department had allied themselves with like-minded progressives throughout the administration and were searching for a way to carry out President Kennedy's commitment to civil rights. These individuals were determined to use the services' early integration successes as a stepping-stone to further civil rights reforms while the administration's civil rights program remained bogged down in Congress.

Although these reformers believed that the armed forces could be an effective instrument of social change for society at large, they clothed their aims in the garb of military efficiency. In fact, military efficiency was certainly McNamara's paramount concern when he supported the idea of enlarging the scope of his department's racial programs and when in 1962 he readily accepted the proposal to appoint the Gesell Committee to study the services' racial program.

The Gesell Committee easily documented the connection, long suspected by the reformers, between discrimination in the community and poor morale among black servicemen and the link between morale and combat efficiency. More important, with its ability to publicize the extent of discrimination against black servicemen in local communities and to offer practical recommendations for reform, the committee was able (p. 621) to stimulate the secretary into action. Yet not until his last years in office, beginning with his open housing campaign in 1967, did McNamara, who had always championed the stand of Adam Yarmolinsky and the rest, become a strong participant.

McNamara promptly endorsed the Gesell Committee's report, which called for a vigorous program to provide equal opportunity for black servicemen, ordering the services to launch such a program in communities near military bases and making the local commander primarily responsible for its success. He soft-pedaled the committee's controversial provision for the use of economic sanctions against recalcitrant businessmen, stressing instead the duty of commanders to press for changes through voluntary compliance. These efforts, according to Defense Department reports, achieved gratifying results in the next few years. In conjunction with other federal officials operating under provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, local commanders helped open thousands of theaters, bowling alleys, restaurants, and bathing beaches to black servicemen. Only in the face of continued opposition to open housing by landlords who dealt with servicemen, and then not until 1967, did McNamara decide to use the powerful and controversial weapon of off-limits sanctions. In short order his programs helped destroy the patterns of segregation in multiple housing in areas surrounding most military bases.

The federal government's commitment to civil rights, manifest in Supreme Court decisions, executive orders, and congressional actions, was an important support for the Defense Department's racial program during this second part of the integration era. It is doubtful whether many of the command initiatives recommended by the Gesell Committee would have succeeded or even been tried without the court's 1954 school ruling and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet in several important instances, such as the McNamara 1963 equal opportunity directive and the open housing campaign in 1967, the department's actions antedated federal action. Originally a follower of civilian society in racial matters, the armed forces moved ahead in the 1950's and by the mid-1960's had become a powerful stimulus for change in civilian practices in some areas of the country.[24-7]

[Footnote 24-7: For a discussion of this point, see Yarmolinsky's The Military Establishment, pp. 346-51.]

Achievements of the services should not detract from the primacy of civil rights legislation in the reforms of the 1960's. The sudden fall of barriers to black Americans was primarily the result of the Civil Rights Acts. But the fact and example of integration in the armed forces was an important cause of change in the communities near military bases. Defense officials, prodding in the matter of integrated schooling for dependent children, found the mere existence of successfully integrated on-base schooling a useful tool in achieving similar schooling off-base. The experience of having served in the integrated armed forces, shared by so many young Americans, also exercised an immeasurable influence on the changes of the 1960's. Gesell Committee member Benjamin Muse recalled hearing a Mississippi hitchhiker say in 1961 at the height of the anti-integration, anti-Negro fever in that area: "I don't hold with this stuff about 'niggers'. (p. 622) I had a colored buddy in Korea, and I want to tell you he was all right."[24-8]

[Footnote 24-8: Quoted in Ltr, Muse to Chief of Military History, 2 Aug 76, in CMH.]



In retrospect, the attention paid by defense officials and the services to off-base discrimination in the 1960's may have been misdirected; many of these injustices would eventually have succumbed to civil rights legislation. Certainly more attention could have been paid to the unfinished business of providing equal treatment and opportunity for black servicemen within the military community. Discrimination in matters of promotion, assignment, and military justice, overlooked by almost everyone in the early 1960's, was never treated with the urgency it deserved. To have done so might have averted at least some of the racial turmoil visited on the services in the Vietnam era.

But these shortcomings merely point to the fact that the services were the only segment of American society to have integrated, however imperfectly, the races on so large a scale. In doing so they demonstrated that a policy of equal treatment and opportunity is more than a legal concept; it also ordains a social condition. Between (p. 623) the enunciation of such a policy and the achievement of its goals can fall the shadow of bigotry and the traditional way of doing things. The record indicates that the services surmounted bigotry and rejected the old ways to a gratifying degree. To the extent that they were successful in bringing the races together, their efficiency prospered and the nation's ideal of equal opportunity for all citizens was fortified.

Unfortunately, the collapse of the legal and administrative barriers to equal treatment and opportunity in the armed forces did not lead immediately to the full realization of this ideal. Equal treatment and opportunity would remain an elusive goal for the Department of Defense for years to come. The post-1965 period comprises a new chapter in the racial history of the services. The agitation that followed the McNamara era had different roots from the events of the previous decades. The key to this difference was suggested during the Vietnam War by the Kerner Commission in its stark conclusion that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate but unequal."[24-9] In contrast to the McNamara period of integration, when civil rights advocates and Defense Department officials worked toward a common goal, subsequent years would be marked by an often greater militancy on the part of black servicemen and a new kind of friction between a fragmented civil rights movement and the Department of Defense. Clearly, in coping with these problems the services will have to move beyond the elimination of legal and administrative barriers that had ordered their racial concerns between 1940 and 1965.

[Footnote 24-9: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, p. 1.]

Note on Sources (p. 625)

The search for source materials used in this volume provided the writer with a special glimpse into the ways in which various government agencies have treated what was until recently considered a sensitive subject. Most important documents and working papers concerning the employment of black servicemen were, well into the 1950's and in contrast to the great bulk of personnel policy papers, routinely given a security classification. In some agencies the "secret" or "confidential" stamp was considered sufficient to protect the materials, which were filed and retired in a routine manner and, therefore, have always been readily available to the persistent and qualified researcher. But, as any experienced staff officer could demonstrate, other methods beyond mere classification can be devised to prevent easy access to sensitive material.

Thus, subterfuges were employed from time to time by officials dealing with racial subjects. In some staff agencies, for example, documents were collected in special files, separated from the normal personnel or policy files. In other instances the materials were never retired in a routine matter, but instead remained for many years scattered in offices of origin or, less often, in some central file system. If some officials appear to have been overly anxious to shield their agency's record, they also, it should be added, possessed a sense of history and the historical import of their work. Though the temptation may have been strong within some agencies to destroy papers connected with past controversies, most officials scrupulously preserved not only the basic policy documents concerning this specialized subject, but also much of the back-up material that the historian treasures.

The problem for the modern researcher is that these special collections and reserved materials, no longer classified and no longer sensitive, have fallen, largely unnoted, into a sea of governmental paper beyond the reach of the archivist's finding aids. The frequently expressed comment of the researcher, "somebody is withholding something," should, for the sake of accuracy, be changed to "somebody has lost track of something."

This material might never have been recovered without the skilled assistance of the historical offices of the various services and Office of the Secretary of Defense. At times their search for lost documents assumed the dimensions of a detective story. In partnership with Marine Corps historian Ralph Donnelly, for example, the author finally traced the bulk of the World War II racial records of the Marine Corps to an obscure and unmarked file in the classified records section of Marine Corps headquarters. A comprehensive collection of official documents on the employment of black personnel in the Navy between 1920 and 1946 was unearthed, not in the official archives, but in a dusty file cabinet in the Bureau of Naval Personnel's Management Information Division.

The search also had its frustrations, for some materials seem (p. 626) permanently lost. Despite persistent and imaginative work by the Coast Guard's historian, Truman Strobridge, much of the documentary record of that service's World War II racial history could not be located. The development of the Coast Guard's policy has had to be reconstructed, painstakingly and laboriously, from other sources. The records of many Army staff agencies for the period 1940-43 were destroyed on the assumption that their materials were duplicated in The Adjutant General's files, an assumption that frequently proved to be incorrect. Although generally intact, the Navy's records of the immediate post-World War II period also lack some of the background staff work on the employment of black manpower. Fortunately for this writer, the recent, inadvertent destruction of the bulk of the Bureau of Naval Personnel's classified wartime records occurred after the basic research for this volume had been completed, but this lamentable accident will no doubt cause problems for future researchers.

Thanks to the efforts of the services' historical offices and the wonder of photocopying, future historians may be spared some of the labor connected with the preparation of this volume. Most of the records surviving outside regular archives have been identified and relocated for easy access. Copies of approximately 65 percent of all documents cited in this volume have been collected and are presently on file in the Center of Military History, from which they will be retired for permanent preservation.

Official Archival Material

The bulk of the official records used in the preparation of this volume is in the permanent custody of the National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C. The records of most military agencies for the period 1940-54 are located in the Modern Military Records Branch or in the Navy and Old Army Branch of the National Archives proper. Most documents dated after 1954, along with military unit records (including ships' logs), are located in the General Archives Division in the Washington National Records Center, Suitland, Maryland. The Suitland center also holds the other major group of official materials, that is, all those documents still administered by the individual agencies but stored in the center prior to their screening and acquisition by the National Archives. These records are open to qualified researchers, but access to them is controlled by the records managers of the individual agencies, a not altogether felicitous arrangement for the researcher, considering the bulk of the material and its lack of organization.

The largest single group of materials consulted were those of the various offices of the Army staff. Although these agencies have abandoned the system of classifying all documents by a decimal-subject system, the system persisted in many offices well into the 1960's, thereby enabling the researcher to accomplish a speedy, if unrefined, screening of pertinent materials. Even with this crutch, the researcher must still comb through thousands of documents created by the Secretary of War (later Secretary of the Army), his assistant secretary, the Chief of Staff, and the various staff divisions, (p. 627) especially the Personnel (G-1), Organization and Training (G-3), and Operations Divisions, together with the offices of The Adjutant General, the Judge Advocate General, and the Inspector General. The War Department Special Planning Division's files are an extremely important source, especially for postwar racial planning, as are the records of the three World War II major commands, the Army Ground, Service, and Air Forces. Although illuminating in regard to the problem of racial discrimination, the records of the office of the secretary's civilian aide are less important in terms of policy development. Finally, the records of the black units, especially the important body of documents related to the tribulations of the 92d Infantry Division in World War II and the 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea, are also vital sources for this subject.

The records managers in the Office of the Secretary of Defense also used the familiar 291.2 classification to designate materials related to the subject of Negroes. (An exception to this generalization were the official papers of the secretary's office during the Forrestal period when a Navy file system was generally employed.) The most important materials on the subject of the Defense Department's racial interests are found in the records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The majority of these records, including the voluminous files of the Assistant Secretary (Manpower) so helpful for the later sections of the study, have remained in the custody of the department and are administered by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Administration). After 1963 the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Civil Rights) and its successor organizations loom as a major source. Many of the official papers were eventually filed with those of the Assistant Secretary (Manpower) or have been retained in the historical files of the Equal Opportunity Office of the Secretary of Defense. The records of the Personnel Policy Board and the Office of the General Counsel, both part of the files of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, are two more important sources of materials on black manpower.

A subject classification system was not universally applied in the Navy Department during the 1940's and even where used proved exceedingly complicated. The records of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy are especially strong in the World War II period, but they must be supplemented with the National Archives' separate Forrestal papers file. Despite the recent loss of records, the files of the Bureau of Naval Personnel remain the primary source for documents on the employment of black personnel in the Navy. Research in all these files, even for the World War II period, is best begun in the Records Management offices of those two agencies. More readily accessible, the records of the Chief of Naval Operations and the General Board, both of considerable importance in understanding the Navy's World War II racial history, are located in the Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Division, Washington Navy Yard. This office has recently created a special miscellaneous file containing important documents of interest to the researcher on racial matters that have been gleaned from various sources not easily available to the researcher.

Copies of all known staff papers concerning black marines and the (p. 628) development of the Marine Corps' equal opportunity program during the integration period have been collected and filed in the reference section of the Director of Marine Corps History and Museums, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps. Likewise, most of the very small selection of extant official Coast Guard records on the employment of Negroes have been identified and collected by the Coast Guard historian. The log of the Sea Cloud, the first Coast Guard vessel in modern times to boast a racially mixed crew, is located in the Archives Branch at Suitland.

The Air Force has retained control of a significant portion of its postwar personnel records, and the researcher would best begin work in the Office of the Administrative Assistant, Secretary of the Air Force. This office has custody of the files of the Secretary of the Air Force, his assistant secretaries, the Office of the Chief of Staff, and the staff agencies pertinent to this story, especially the Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, and the Director of Military Personnel. The records of black air units, as well as the extensive and well-indexed collection of official unit and base histories and studies and reports of the Air staff that touch on the service's racial policies, are located in the Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. These records are supplemented, and sometimes duplicated, by the holdings of the Suitland Records Center and the Office of Air Force History, Boiling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. Other Air Force files of interest, particularly in the area of policy planning, can be found in the holdings of the National Archives' Modern Military Branch.

The records of the Selective Service System also provide some interesting material, but most of this has been published by the Selective Service in its Special Groups (Special Monograph Number 10, 2 vols. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953]). Far more important are the records of the War Manpower Commission, located in the National Archives, which, when studied in conjunction with the papers of the Secretaries of War and Navy, reveal the influence of the 1940 draft law on the services' racial policies.

Personal Collections

The official records of the integration of the armed forces are not limited to those documents retired by the governmental agencies. Parts of the story must also be gleaned from documents that for various reasons have been included in the personal papers of individuals. Documents created by government officials, as well as much unofficial material of special interest, are scattered in a number of institutional or private repositories. Probably the most noteworthy of these collections is the papers of the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (the Fahy Committee) in the Harry S. Truman Library. In addition to this central source, the Truman Library also contains materials contributed by Philleo Nash, Oscar Chapman, and Clark Clifford, whose work in the White House was intimately, if briefly, concerned with armed forces integration. The President's own papers, especially the recently opened White House Secretary's File, contain a number of important (p. 629) documents.

Documents of special interest can also be found in the Roosevelt Papers at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and among the various White House files preserved in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. The Central White House file in the John F. Kennedy Library, along with the papers of Harris Wofford and Gerhard Gesell, are essential to the history of equal opportunity in the early 1960's. Most of these collections are well indexed.

The James V. Forrestal Papers, Princeton University Library, while helpful in tracing the Urban League's contribution to the Navy's integration policy, lack the focus and comprehensiveness of the Forrestal Papers in the National Archives' Office of the Secretary of the Navy file. Another collection of particular interest for the naval aspects of the story is the Dennis D. Nelson Papers, in the custody of the Nelson family in San Diego, California, with a microfilm copy on file in the Navy's Operational Archives Branch in Washington. The heart of this collection is the materials Nelson gathered while writing "The Integration of the Negro in the United States Navy, 1776-1947," a U.S. Navy monograph prepared in 1948. The Nelson collection also contains a large group of newspaper clippings and other rare secondary materials of special interest. The Maxie M. Berry Papers, in the custody of the equal opportunity officer of the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters, offer a rare glimpse into the life of black Coast Guardsmen during World War II, especially those assigned to the all-black Pea Island Station, North Carolina.

The U.S. Army Military History Research Collection at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, has acquired the papers of James C. Evans, the long-time Civilian Aide to the Secretaries of War and Defense, and those of Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem, Jr., the chairman of the Army's special personnel board that bears his name. The Evans materials contain a rare collection of clippings and memorandums on integration in the armed forces; the Gillem Papers are particularly interesting for the summaries of testimony before the Gillem Board.

The papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, are useful, especially if used in conjunction with that library's Arthur B. Spingarn Papers, in assessing the role of the civil rights leaders in bringing about black participation in World War II. The collection of secondary materials on Negroes in the armed forces in the Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library, however, is disappointing, considering the prominence of that institution.

Finally, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., has on file those materials collected by the author in the preparation of this volume, including not only those items cited in the footnotes, but also copies of hundreds of official documents and correspondence with various participants, together with the unique body of documents and notes collected by Lee Nichols in his groundbreaking research on integration. Of particular importance among the documents in the Center of Military History are copies of many Bureau of Naval Personnel documents, the originals of which have since been destroyed, as well as copies of the bulk of the papers produced by the Fahy Committee.

Interviews (p. 630)

The status of black servicemen in the integration era has attracted considerable attention among oral history enthusiasts. The author has taken advantage of this special source, but oral testimony concerning integration must be treated cautiously. In addition to the usual dangers of fallible memory that haunt all oral history interviews, the subjects of some of these interviews, it should be emphasized, were separated from the events they were recalling by a civil rights revolution that has changed fundamentally the attitudes of many people, both black and white. In some instances it is readily apparent that the recollections of persons being interviewed have been colored by the changes of the 1950's and 1960's, and while their recitation of specific events can be checked against the records, their estimates of attitudes and influences, not so easily verified, should be used cautiously. Much of this danger can be avoided by a skillful interviewer with special knowledge of integration. Because of the care that went into the interviews conducted in the U.S. Air Force Oral History Program, which are on file at the Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, they are particularly dependable. This is especially true of those used in this study, for they were conducted by Lt. Col. Alan Gropman and Maj. Alan Osur, both serious students of the subject. Particular note should be made of the especially valuable interviews with former Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert and several of the more prominent black generals.

The extensive Columbia University Oral History Collection has several interviews of special interest, in particular the very revealing interview with the National Urban League's Lester Granger. Read in conjunction with the National Archives' Forrestal Papers, this interview is a major source for the Navy's immediate postwar policy changes. Similarly, the Kennedy Library's oral history program contains several interviews that are helpful in assessing the role of the services in the Kennedy administration's civil rights program. Of particular interest are the interviews with Harris Wofford, Roy Wilkins, and Theodore Hesburgh.

The U.S. Marine Corps Oral History Program, whose interviews are on file in Marine Corps headquarters, and the U.S. Navy Oral History Collection, copies of which can be found in the Navy's Operational Archives Branch, contain several interviews of special interest to researchers in racial history. Mention should be made of the Marine Corps interviews with Generals Ray A. Robinson and Alfred G. Noble and the Navy's interviews with Captains Mildred McAfee Horton and Dorothy Stratton, leaders of the World War II WAVES and SPARS.

Finally, included in the files of the Center of Military History is a collection of notes taken by Lee Nichols, Martin Blumenson, and the author during their interviews with leading figures in the integration story. The Nichols notes, covering the series of interviews conducted by that veteran reporter in 1953-54, include such items as summaries of conversations with Harry S. Truman, Truman K. Gibson, Jr., and Emmett J. Scott.

Printed Materials (p. 631)

Many of the secondary materials found particularly helpful by the author have been cited throughout the volume, but special attention should be drawn to certain key works in several categories. In the area of official works, Ulysses Lee's The Employment of Negro Troops in the United States Army in World War II series (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1966) remains the definitive account of the Negro in the World War II Army. The Bureau of Naval Personnel's "The Negro in the Navy," Bureau of Naval Personnel History of World War II (mimeographed, 1946, of which there is a copy in the bureau's Technical Library in Washington), is a rare item that has assumed even greater significance with the loss of so much of the bureau's records. Presented without attribution, the text paraphrases many important documents accurately. Margaret L. Geis's "Negro Personnel in the European Command, 1 January 1946-30 June 1950," part of the Occupation Forces in Europe series (Historical Division, European Command, 1952), Ronald Sher's "Integration of Negro and White Troops in the U.S. Army, Europe, 1952-1954" (Historical Division, Headquarters, U.S. Army, Europe, 1956), and Charles G. Cleaver, "Personnel Problems," vol. III, pt. 2, of the "History of the Korean War" (Military History Section, Headquarters, Far East Command, 1952), are important secondary sources for guiding the student through a bewildering mass of materials. Alan M. Osur's Blacks in the Army Air Forces During World War II: The Problem of Race Relations (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977) and Alan Gropman's The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1978), both published by the Office of Air Force History, and Henry I. Shaw, Jr., and Ralph W. Donnelly's Blacks in the Marine Corps (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975) provided official, comprehensive surveys of their subjects. Finally, there is in the files of the Center of Military History a copy of the transcripts of the National Defense Conference on Negro Affairs (26 April 1948). Second only to the transcripts of the Fahy Committee hearings in comprehensiveness on the subject of postwar racial policies, this document also provides a rare look at the attitudes of the traditional black leadership at a crucial period.

As the footnotes indicate, congressional documents and newspapers were also important resources mined in the preparation of this volume. Of particular interest, the Center of Military History has on file a special guide to some of these sources prepared by Lt. Col. Reinhold S. Schumann (USAR). This guide analyzes the congressional and press reaction to the 1940 and 1948 draft laws and to the Fahy and Gesell Committee reports.

In his Blacks and the Military in American History: A New Perspective (New York: Praeger, 1974), Jack D. Foner provides a fine general survey of the Negro in the armed forces, including an accurate summary of the integration period. Among the many specialized studies on the integration period itself, cited throughout the text, several might provide a helpful entree to a complicated subject. The standard account is Richard M. Dalfiume's Desegregation of the United (p. 632) States Armed Forces: Fighting on Two Fronts, 1939-1953 (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1969). Carefully documented and containing a very helpful bibliography, this work tends to emphasize the influence of the civil rights advocates and Harry Truman on the integration process. The reader will also benefit from consulting Lee Nichols's pioneer work, Breakthrough on the Color Front (New York: Random House, 1954). Although lacking documentation, Nichols's journalistic account was devised with the help of many of the participants and is still of considerable value to the student. The reader may also want to consult Richard J. Stillman II's short survey, Integration of the Negro in the U.S. Armed Forces (New York: Praeger, 1968), principally for its statistical information on the post-Korean period.

The role of President Truman and the Fahy Committee in the integration of the armed forces has been treated in detail by Dalfiume and by Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten in Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration (Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Press, 1973). A valuable critical appraisal of the short-range response of the Army to the Fahy Committee's work appeared in Edwin W. Kenworthy's "The Case Against Army Segregation," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 275 (May 1951):27-33. In addition, the reader may want to consult William C. Berman's The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman Administration (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970) for a general survey of civil rights in the Truman years.

The expansion of the Defense Department's equal treatment and opportunity policy in the 1960's is explained by Adam Yarmolinsky in The Military Establishment: Its Impacts on American Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1971). This book is the work of a number of informed specialists sponsored by the 20th Century Fund. A general survey of President Kennedy's civil rights program is presented by Carl M. Brauer in his John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). The McNamara era is treated in Fred Richard Bahr's "The Expanding Role of the Department of Defense as an Instrument of Social Change" (Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 1970).

Concerning the rise of the civil rights movement itself, the reader would be advised to consult C. Vann Woodward's masterful The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3d ed. rev. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974), and the two volumes composed by Gesell Committee member Benjamin Muse, Ten Years of Prelude: The Story of Integration Since the Supreme Court's 1954 Decision (New York: The Viking Press, 1964), and The American Negro Revolution: From Nonviolence to Black Power, 1963-1967 (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1968). Important aspects of the civil rights movement and its influence on American servicemen are discussed by Jack Greenberg in Race Relations and American Law (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959) and Eli Ginzberg, The Negro Potential (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956).

Finally, many of the documents supporting the history of the integration of the armed forces, including complete transcripts of the Fahy Committee hearings and the Conference on Negro Affairs, have (p. 633) been compiled by the author and Bernard C. Nalty in the multivolumed Blacks in the United States Armed Forces: Basic Documents (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1977).



Index (p. 635)

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., 605.

Action Coordinating Committee to End Segregation in the Suburbs (ACCESS), 601, 601n.

Adler, Julius Ochs, 314.

Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies (McCloy Committee), 34-35, 39, 41-43, 45, 56, 123.

Advisory Commission on Universal Training (Compton Commission), 303.

Ailes, Stephen, 574.

Air Force Times, 411.

Air forces Second, 273; Third, 273; Fourth, 273; Ninth, 282.

Air Training Command, 402, 405.

Air Transport Command, 273.

Air Transport Wing, 1701st, 411.

Airborne Division, 82d, 190-92, 200.

Alaskan Command, integration of, 452.

Alaskan Department, 190, 197.

Alexander, Sadie T. M., 294, 302n.

Almond, Lt. Gen. Edward M., 134, 135, 440-41.

American Civil Liberties Union, 246, 418.

American Legion, 225.

American Veterans Committee, 321, 503, 518, 521.

Anderson, Robert B., 421-23, 484-86.

Andrews Air Force Base, Md., 604-05.

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 492, 521.

Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, 3d (USMC), 269.

Antilles Department, 190.

Arkansas A&M Normal College, 571.

Armed forces, Negroes in before 1940, 3-8.

Armed Forces Qualification Test, 394-95, 523, 573, See also Intelligence levels and test scores.

Armies First, 53; Sixth, 453; Seventh, 53, 210-11, 390, 452; Eighth, 208-10, 430, 433-34, 436-39, 442-47.

Armored Division, 2d, 200.

Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 58th, 445.

Armstrong, Lt. Comdr. Daniel, 67.

Army Air Forces efficiency, military, and segregation in, 26-30, 271-79; enlistment practices, 276; manpower shortages, black, 271-72; morale in, 273-74; officer training schools, integration of, 275; officers, black, 27-30, 272-73; postwar assignments, 140-41, 159-60, 195, 197, 272; quotas, 180-81, 183; racial policies, 1940-1947, 27-30, 271-79; training in, 271, 274-76.

Army Forces, Pacific, 179.

Army General Classification Test (AGCT), 24-25, 31, 55n, 137-38, 203-04, 215-16, 617-18; See also Intelligence levels and test scores.

Army Ground Forces, 180, 189; and assignments, 194-95, 197; and postwar location of training camps, 223-24; and postwar use of black troops, 139-40, 160.

Army Groups, 6th and 12th, 52-53.

Army Service Forces, 42; and postwar quotas, 181, 190; and postwar use of black troops, 138-39, 160-61.

Army Talk, 170, 226.

Arnold, Maj. Gen. Henry H., 27, 271, 274.

Assignments, Air Force postwar, 277-79; and reassignments during integration, 402-04, 410.

Assignments, armed forces and civilian community attitudes, 37, 223-24, 262-65, 467-68; and embassy and special mission, 467, 577-78; and occupational distribution, 523-26, 572-73; and overseas restrictions, 38, 179, 385-89.

Assignments, Army and Fahy Committee, 368-71; and Korean War, 433-34; postwar, 194-98; in World War II, 33-34, 37-38, 43-44, 51-54.

Assignments, Coast Guard, 114-17.

Assignments, Marine Corps and 1951 integration order, 466-68; postwar, 173, 253-57, 261-66, 335-38; in World War II, 104, 106-10.

Assignments, Navy postwar, 244-45; in World War II, 72-75, 77-78, 84-86, 96.

Attitudes, change in toward Negroes, 229-30, 447, 614.

Attorney General, 587, 589.

Availability of Facilities to Military Personnel, The, 512-15.

Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Md., 73, 77, 92, 243.

Baker, Newton D., 46-47.

Baldwin, Hanson W., 164, 317.

Bard, Ralph A., 59, 62-63, 144.

Bare, Maj. Gen. Robert O., 467-68.

Barr, Col. John E., 280-81.

Base Service Squadron, 3817th, 404.

Battle Mountain, Korea, 436.

Bayonne, N.J. (naval shipyard), 263-64.

Bennett, L. Howard, 559n, 603.

Benton, William, 392n.

Berthoud, 2d Lt. Kenneth H., Jr., 472.

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 302n.

Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, 494.

Billikopf, Jacob, 314.

Blood banks, segregated, 36.

Blytheville, Ark., 498.

Bolte, Maj. Gen. Charles L., 194.

Bombardment Group, 477th, 29-30, 271, 275.

Bradley, General Omar N., 55, 188; and Fahy Committee, 350-51, 410; and a segregated Army, 228-29, 317-18, 321, 326.

Branch, 2d Lt. Frederick, 266.

Bremerhaven, Germany, 129.

Broad, Stuart, 559n.

Brookley Air Force Base, Ala., 512.

Brooks, Lt. Gen. Edward H., 432.

Brown, Edgar G., 49.

Brown, Ens. Jessie, 246.

Brown, John Nicholas, 242, 249, 329-30, 331.

Brown, Ens. Wesley A., 246, 414.

Brown v. Board of Education, 323, 476, 586.

Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 480.

Browning, Charles, 302n.

Bull, Maj. Gen. Harold R., 326, 331.

Buress, Maj. Gen. Withers A., 429n.

Burgess, Carter L., 494.

Burley, Dan, 302n.

Burns, Maj. Gen. James H., 387.

Byrd, Robert C., 551.

Caffey, Brig. Gen. Benjamin F., 194.

Calypso, 114.

Camp Barry, Ill., 67.

Camp Campbell, Ky., 327.

Camp Geiger, N.C., 269.

Camp Hanford, Wash., 481.

Camp Lejeune, N.C., 255, 259.

Camp Perry, Va., 148.

Camp Robert Smalls, Ill., 67, 68, 77.

Campbell, 116.

Career Guidance Program (War Department), 198-99.

Carey, James B., 295n.

Caribbean Defense Command, 190.

Carlton, Sgt. Cornelius H., 440.

Cates, General Clifton B., 334-36, 461-62.

Cavalry Division, 2d, 31-33, 135n, 192, 439.

Cavalry regiments, 9th and 10th, 4, 30-31, 33, 192, 454.

Cemeteries, national, 224-25.

Chamberlain, Col. Edwin W., 31-32.

Chamberlin, Lt. Gen. Stephen J., 429.

Chamberlin Board, 429-30, 432, 440.

Charleston, S.C. (shipyard), 485, 486.

Charyk, Joseph V., 563.

Chemung, 86.

Cherokee, Charlie, 316.

Chicago Defender, 316, 408.

Chicago Tribune, 41.

Chief of Staff. See Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D.

Chile, 38.

China, 179, 385.

Ch'ongch'on River line, 434.

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 554, 587-88, 590, 595.

Civil rights demonstrations, participation of servicemen in, 514-16, 541.

Civil rights legislation (1964-1966), 477, 554, 586-90, 595, 610-12.

Civil rights movement, 608; and armed forces before World War II, 13-16; and armed forces during World War II, 18-19, 23, 56, 123-30; and Department of Defense, 299-309, 510-17; and Eisenhower, 474-79, 485; and Johnson, 586-90, 602; and Kennedy, 473, 477, 504-07, 508-10, 535, 537, 546, 586; and off-base discrimination, 473, 479-83, 500-04; post-World War II, 474-79; and postwar use of Negroes in armed forces, 129-30, 152; prior to World War II, 8-13; and Roosevelt, 8, 18-19; and Truman, 124, 130, 292-97, 309-10, 483n, 488.

Civil Rights Subcabinet Group (1961), 506-07.

Civilian Aide to Secretary of War for Negro Affairs. See Gibson, Truman K., Jr., Hastie, William H.; Ray, Marcus H.; Scott, Emmett J.

Civilian communities. See also Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee). and assignment of black personnel, 37, 223-24, 262-65, 467-68; and off-base discrimination, 129, 473, 479-83, 500, 606-08, 619-21; and off-base discrimination overseas, 214-15, 578; and racial incidents, 38, 39, 393-94, 412.

Clark, General Mark W., 133, 432-33, 443.

Clay, Lt. Gen. Lucius D., 212.

Clifford, Clark M., 308-11, 374, 605.

Colley, Nathaniel S., 537, 552.

Collins, General J. Lawton and the Fahy Committee, 369-70; and integration of the Army, 428-30, 431, 442, 443, 449-51, 454, 610n.

Combat Service Group, 2d, 269.

Command of Negro Troops, 44-45.

Commerce, Department of, 587.

Commission of Inquiry (1948), 306-07.

Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, 300, 302, 390.

Committee on Civil Rights (1946), 294-95.

Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (1961), 506.

Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee), 535-37; conclusions of, 538-42, 566, 577-78; congressional opposition to, 550-51; and DOD Directive 5120.36 issued, 548; and final report, 552-55; and local commanders' responsibilities, 540, 542-55, 561, 621; and off-limits sanctions, 543-44, 546-47, 555, 581; operations of, 537-38; reactions to, 545-48; recommendations of, 542-45, 599.

Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Fahy Committee), 312-14, 342, 616-17; and the Air Force, 352, 356-57, 398, 407-08, 411-12; and Army assignments, 368-71; and Army opposition to recommendations, 359-62; and Army proposals and counterproposals, 360-68; and Army quotas, 356, 371-75, 429-30; assessment of, 375-78; and Department of Defense racial policy, 343-48; and enlistment standards, 357-59; and initial recommendations, 357-58; and military efficiency in the Army, 350-56, 428, 613; and the Navy, 352, 357-58, 412, 425-26; purpose of, 348-50.

Committee for Negro Participation in the National Defense Program (1938), 10.

Committee on Negro Personnel (Navy), 144-46, 151.

Community facilities, integrated, availability of for servicemen, 512-14.

Composite Group, 477th, 275, 278.

Composite units in the Army, 189-93; in the Marine Corps, 268-69, 335.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 126, 478, 504.

Construction Battalion, 80th, 75.

Contract compliance program, 510n.

Cooke, Brig. Gen. Elliot D., 212.

Crabb, Brig. Gen. Jarred V., 283.

Craig, Maj. Gen. Lewis A., 431-32.

Craig Air Force Base, Ala., 480, 493.

Crime and disease rates, 206-09, 219, 273.

Crisis, The, 9, 14, 66, 133.

Daniels, Jonathan, 294, 313.

Darden, Colgate, 313.

Darden, Capt. Thomas F., 76.

Davenport, Roy K., 199, 204, 352-56, 358, 370-72, 380, 394-95, 535n, 576.

Davis, Col. Benjamin O., Jr., 275, 283-84, 286, 341, 400, 402.

Davis, Brig. Gen. Benjamin O., Sr., 19, 37, 39, 48, 53, 231.

Davis, Dowdal H., 302n, 408.

Davis, John W., 302n.

Dawson, Donald S., 313-14, 316.

Dawson William L., 314.

Defense, Department of, 297-99; and basic regulations on equal opportunity, 564, 566; and civil rights, 298-308, 510-17; and civilian communities, 473, 479-83, 500, 607-08, 620-21; and discrimination in the services, 1950's, 473-74, 482-83, 500; and discrimination within the services, 1960's, 566-80; and equal opportunity directive, 1963, 547-51, 556-57, 581, 619-21; and field of community race relations, 531-35; and integration of dependents' schools, 489-97, 596-99, 620; and off-base discrimination, 500-03, 510-16, 583-85; and off-base housing, 515-16, 584-85, 589, 598-606, 621; and off-limits sanctions, 531-34, 543-44, 547-48, 556-57, 581, 604-05, 608, 621; and organization of a civil rights office, 558-66; and overseas assignments, 385-89; and racial designations, 380-85, 574-77; and voluntary compliance programs, 581-86, 592-93, 602-03, 607-08, 621. See also Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee); Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Fahy Committee).

Defense Appropriations Act, 315.

Defense battalions 51st (Composite), 101, 108-10; 52d, 109-10, 262.

Denfeld, Admiral Louis E., 167-68.

Depot companies 2d Medium 269; 7th and 8th, 111.

Dern, George H., 225.

Desegregation. See Integration of the four services.

Detroit Free Press, 421-22.

Devers, General Jacob L., 134, 165, 190-92.

DeVoe, Lt. (jg.) Edith, 246.

DeVoto, Bernard, 126-27.

Dewey, Thomas E., 87, 309.

Dickey, John S., 295n.

Diggs, Charles C., Jr., 503, 520-22, 535, 537.

Dillon, Lt. Comdr. Charles E., 76.

Dillon, Douglas, 508.

Discipline. See Crime and disease rates.

Discrimination, racial. See also Civilian communities; Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee); Integration of the four services; Racial policies of the four services. and complaints of in the 1960's, 501-04, 510, 520-21, 557, 571, 584-86; and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights study of (1963), 521-22.

Disease rates. See Crime and disease rates.

District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., 476.

Divine, Maj. Gen. John M., 429n.

Divisions. See Airborne Division, 82d; Armored Division, 2d; Cavalry Division, 2d; Infantry divisions; Marine divisions; National Guard divisions, 40th and 45th.

DOD Directive 5120.36, 547-51, 556-57, 581, 619-20.

Donahue, Alphonsus J., 314.

Double V campaign, 9, 17, 56.

Draper, William H., Jr., 193.

Drew, Charles R., 36.

DuBois, William E. B., 14, 124.

Dutton, Frederick G., 506, 508, 512.

Eaker, Lt. Gen. Ira C., 159-60, 196.

Earle Naval Ammunition Depot, N.J., 254, 263-65.

Early, Stephen, 15.

Eberstadt, Ferdinand, 298.

Ebony, 408, 412.

Eddy, Lt. Gen. Manton S., 451.

Edgewood Arsenal, Md., 605.

Education program, EUCOM, 216-19.

Educational backgrounds, 24-25, 67, 75, 137, 171-72, 617-18.

Edwards, Daniel K., 394.

Edwards, Lt. Gen. Idwal H. and continued segregation in the Air Force, 285-89; and integration plan of 1949, 338-42, 352, 399-401, 616; and overseas restrictions, 387; and Army postwar racial policy, 159, 176.

Efficiency, military, and segregation, 3, 152, 499, 612-13; in the Air Force, 270, 276-77, 280-81; in the Army, 18, 20, 24-26, 30-34, 43, 56-57, 350-56, 428; in the Marine Corps, 256, 261-66, 334-36; in the Navy, 62-63, 76-77, 235-37.

Eisenhower, General of the Army Dwight D., 192, 392, 451; and the Army's racial policy, 227-29, 307, 618; and civil rights movement, 476-78, 485; and federal intervention, 473, 482, 487; and Gillem Board Report, 162; and integration of dependents' schools, 489-92, 495, 497-98; and Negro infantry training, 51-52.

Ellender, Allen J., 11.

Engineer Battalion, 94th, 452, 455.

Engineer Combat Company, 77th, 445.

Engineers, Chief of, 222-23.

Eniwetok, 110.

Enlistment in armed forces, 1960's, and black indifference, 567-69.

Enlistment practices in the Air Force, 276, 280, 618-19; in the Army, 25-26, 32, 178, 182-84, 187-89, 203, 430, 618-19; in the Coast Guard, 112, 114-15; in the Marine Corps, 101-04, 107, 257-61; in the Navy, 66-67, 69-71, 167, 236, 237-249, 421-24, 618-19.

Enlistment standards and the Fahy Committee, 356-59; and interservice controversy over in 1948, 324-26; and qualitative distribution program, 394-95, 415-16.

Equal opportunity in the 1960's. See also Executive Order 9981. in the Air Force, 561, 563; in the armed forces; assessments of, 578-80, 618-22; and DOD Directive 5120.36, 546-50, 555-56, 580, 619-20; in the Army, 560-61; and Executive Order 10925, 505-06, 512; in the Marine Corps, 561; in the Navy, 560-63.

Ernst, Morris L., 295n.

Ethiopia and the Assignment of American servicemen, 388-89.

Ethridge, Mark, 62-63.

European Command, 190, 197, 209, 448n; and education program, 216-19; and integration of, 450-53.

Evans, James C. and DOD racial policies, 286, 299, 306-07, 435, 457, 506n; and foreign assignment of Negroes, 387; and integration of naval shipyards, 483, 486; and new civil rights office, 558; and off-base discrimination, 479-80, 502, 532-33; and racial designations, 382, 574-75.

Evans, Joseph, 419.

Ewing, Oscar, 309-11, 313.

Executive Order 9980, 483.

Executive Order 9981, 291, 309-14, 616; and immediate effect on the Air Force, 338-42; and immediate effect on the Army, 318-31; and immediate effect on the Marine Corps, 334-38; and immediate effect on the Navy, 331-34; limitations on, 479-483; public reactions to, 315-18.

Executive Order 10925, 505-06, 512.

Executive Order 11063, 506, 517.

Fahy, Charles, 314, 348-51, 352-56, 360-66, 368-71, 376, 378n, 410.

Fahy Committee. See Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Fahy Committee).

Fair Employment Practices Commission, 16, 62-63, 293.

Fairchild, General Muir S., 339.

Faix, Capt. Thomas L., 465.

Falgout, 426.

Far East Command, 197, 208, 210, 216, 443-45.

Farmer, James, 478.

Fay, Paul B., Jr., 538, 541-42, 560-62.

Fechteler, Rear Adm. William M., 245.

Federal Housing Authority, 476-77, 479, 601.

Ferguson, Homer, 479.

Fighter Group, 332d, 29, 275.

Fighter Squadron, 99th, 29, 428.

Fighter Wing, 332d, 282-84, 398-99, 408.

Finkle, Lee, 9.

Finletter, Thomas K., 384-85.

Finucane, Charles C., 497.

Fish, Hamilton, 11-12.

Fitt, Alfred B. and assignments, 577-78; and dependents' schools, 596-98; and effort to attract black officer candidates, 569-70; as first civil rights deputy, 536n, 551, 559-60, 563-64, 571n, 579, 601; and Gesell Committee, 546-47; and racial designations, 576-77; and voluntary action programs, 582-83, 585-86, 592.

Foner, Jack, 7.

Forrestal, James V., 57, 59, 345, 609; and changes in Navy's policy, 84-85, 87-89, 94-96, 98, 128-29, 235, 244-45, 248, 614-15; and Executive Order 9981, 311, 314; and Fahy Committee, 343-44, 356, 376; and integration approach as Secretary of Defense, 292, 297-99, 301-02, 305, 307-09, 324-25, 327, 330; and postwar policy aims, 144-45, 147, 151, 166-70.

Fort Belvoir, Va., 493, 597.

Fort Benning, Ga., 50, 216, 490.

Fort Bliss, Tex., 494.

Fort Bragg, N. C., 223.

Fort Dix, N. J., 201, 223-24, 435-36.

Fort George G. Meade, Md., 494, 605.

Fort Holabird, Md., 605.

Fort Hood, Tex., 514-15.

Fort Jackson, S. C., 223-24, 435.

Fort Knox, Ky., 201, 223, 303, 436.

Fort Leavenworth, Kans., 209-10.

Fort Lee, Va., 434, 596.

Fort Lewis, Wash., 223.

Fort Mifflin, Pa., 264, 265.

Fort Ord, Calif., 223-24, 435.

Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minn., 225.

Fortas, Abe, 537.

Fowler, Maj. James D., 201-02, 354.

Francis, H. Minton, 559n.

Freedom to Serve, 375, 408.

Freeman, Douglas Southall, 313.

Freeman, General Paul, 578.

Freeman Field, Ind., 45, 128, 273.

Fulbright, J. William, 551.

Garrison, Lloyd K., 314.

Garvey, Marcus, 16.

German Army and segregated units, 23n.

Gesell, Gerhard A., 535-39, 542-44, 547, 552-54, 561, 604.

Gesell Committee. See Committee on Equality of Opportunity in the Armed Forces (Gesell Committee).

Gibson, Truman K., Jr., 21, 41, 132, 137-38, 141-42, 157-58, 163, 165, 299-300, 302n, 304, 310, 558n.

Gillem, Lt. Gen. Alvan C., Jr., 153-55, 165.

Gillem Board, 153-54, 165-66, 232-33, 275, 278, 614; and attitudes toward new policy, 163-65; conclusions and recommendations of, 154-57, 161-62, 430-31, 437, 459; and reactions to recommendations, 157-61.

Gilliam, Jerry, 483.

Gillmor, Reginald E., 314.

Gilpatric, Roswell L., 510, 512-13, 520, 532, 534, 536n.

Ginzberg, Eli, 450-51.

Gittelsohn, Roland B., 295n.

Godman Field, Ky., 30, 272.

Goldwater, Barry M., 551.

Goode, James P., 498, 565.

Grafenwohr Training Center, Germany, 217.

Graham, Annie N., 267.

Graham, Frank P., 295n, 313.

Granger, Lester B., 88, 92, 124, 169, 249-50, 252; and Fahy Committee, 313-14, 371; and inspection of black units, 147-51; and racial problems of Department of Defense, 301-02, 305, 307, 324, 326, 484-85; and recommendations to Navy Department, 95-98, 144-46, 150-51, 166-68, 614; and reforms in Steward's Branch, 242, 421-22, 426; and shortage of black officers, 245, 247.

Gravely, Lt. Comdr. Samuel L., Jr., 77, 80n, 426.

Gray, Gordon and Fahy Committee, 360, 362-64, 367-70, 373-74; and integration of the Army, 428-30.

Great Britain, 37-39.

Great Falls Air Force Base, Mont., 411.

Great Lakes Training Center, Ill., 67, 77, 79, 82, 244.

Greenland, 38, 386.

Gregg, Bishop J. W., 302n.

Gross, H. R., 550.

Gruenther, General Alfred M., 452.

Guam and black Marines at, 110, 150, 254-55, 258; and race riot at, 92-93.

Guide to the Command of Negro Naval Personnel, 83-84.

Haas, Francis J., 295n.

Hague, Rear Adm. W. McL., 483.

Haislip, General Wade H., 228-29, 364, 440.

Halaby, Najeeb, 386-87.

Hall, Lt. Gen. Charles P., 189-92, 195.

Hall, Durward G., 550.

Hampton Institute, Va., 67-68.

Handy, General Thomas T., 226, 450-51.

Hannah, John A., 454-56, 486, 489, 499.

Harper, Robert, 398.

Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 589.

Hastie, William H., 19-20, 23, 30, 36, 40-42, 49, 51, 56, 558n.

Havenner, Franck R., 393.

Hawaii, 149, 265.

Hayes, Arthur Garfield, 306.

Healey, Capt. Michael, 113n.

Health, Education, and Welfare, Department of, 492, 596, 598-99.

Hebert, F. Edward, 550.

Hector, Louis, 537.

Heinz, Comdr. Luther C., 414.

Hershey, Maj. Gen. Lewis B., 70, 103, 384.

Hesburgh, Father Theodore, 505.

Hewes, Laurence I., III, 537, 543.

Hill, Maj. Gen. Jim Dan, 321-22.

Hill, Lister, 11, 511.

Hill, T. Arnold, 9, 15.

Hillenkoetter, Capt. Roscoe H., 145.

Hingham, Mass., 264-65.

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 491-92.

Hodes, Maj. Gen. Henry I., 196-97.

Holcomb, Maj. Gen. Thomas, 64, 100-101, 105-06.

Holifield, Chet, 381.

Holloway, Vice Adm. James L., Jr., 421-23.

Holloway program, 246.

Holmes, John Haynes, 187.

Hope, Lt. Comdr. Edward, 250.

Hoquim, 120-21.

Housing, off-base, 476-77, 479, 502, 506, 584; and Department of Defense, 516-17, 581, 585-86, 590, 599-608, 621; in Washington, D.C. area, 601-04.

Houston, Charles H., 14, 302n.

Huebner, Lt. Gen. Clarence R., 216-17, 219, 330-31.

Huff, Sgt. Maj. Edgar R., 472.

Hull, Lt. Gen. John E., 159.

Humphrey, Hubert H., 309, 392, 488.

Hunter College Naval Training School, N.Y., 88.

Iceland, 38, 179, 385-87.

Infantry battalions 3d of 9th Infantry, 193; 3d of 188th Infantry, 193; 9th, 462; 370th and 371st (Separate), 217n.

Infantry divisions 1st, 190, 217; 2d, 200; 3d, 327; 9th, 435; 25th, 445; 34th, 134; 69th, 53; 88th, 193; 92d, 7, 18, 30, 32, 43, 132, 136-37, 351-52, 440; 93d, 7, 32, 43, 135-37, 352.

Infantry regiments 9th, 433; 14th, 444; 24th, 4, 7, 135, 192, 436-40, 442-45, 459; 25th, 4, 7, 136, 192; 27th, 437; 34th, 444; 35th, 437; 313th, 319; 364th, 436; 365th, 436.

Installation Group, 3202d, 410.

Integration of the Air Force directive for (1949), 401-02; and the Fahy Committee, 352, 357; and local commanders' responsibilities, 400-401; plan for in 1949, 338-42, 376, 397-400; and reassignment of black airmen, 402-04, 410; and screening at Lockbourne Field, 402-03; and social situations, 409-11; success of, 405-12, 615-16.

Integration of the Army and continental Army commands, 453-54; in the Eighth Army, 442-47; and the European Command, 450-53; and military efficiency, 428-34; in officer training schools, 47-51, 275; and performance of 24th Infantry Regiment, 436-40; in platoons, 51-56; and review of racial policy (1951), 440-42; and social situations, 447, 449, 456; success of, 455-59, 616-17; and training units, 434-36.

Integration of the Coast Guard, 118-22.

Integration of the Marine Corps and assignments of Negroes, 466-68; and black reservists, 267-69; and the Korean War, 462-66, 617; new racial policy for (1949), 461-62; and recruit training, 334-35; and the Steward's Branch, 468-71.

Integration of the Navy in the fleet, 77-78, 84-86, 167-68, 614-15; new plan for in 1949, 412-13; and recruitment of Negroes, 413-18; and shipyards, 483-87; and the Steward's Branch, 418-25.

Intelligence levels and test scores, 24, 104, 137-38, 140, 198-99, 204, 271, 324-25, 372-73, 521-24, 527, 571-73.

Interstate Commerce Commission, 476, 506, 531.

Investigations on conduct of black soldiers, 210-13.

Jackson, Stephen S., 497, 517.

Jacobs, Rear Adm. Randall, 68-70, 72, 84, 89.

James, Lt. Gen. Daniel (Chappie), Jr., 401.

James Connally Air Force Base, Tex., 405.

Javits, Jacob K., 391-92, 435.

Jenkins, Ens. Joseph C., 121.

Johnson, Col. Campbell C., 19, 103.

Johnson, Earl D., 395, 432, 436, 449-50.

Johnson, John H., 302n.

Johnson, Louis A. and Fahy Committee, 343, 345-48, 358-62, 364-67, 371, 374; as Secretary of Defense, 380-81, 386-87, 390-92, 396.

Johnson, Lyndon B., and civil rights legislation, 587-91, 602; and Gesell Committee, 536, 552.

Johnson, Mordecai, 247, 285, 302n.

Jones, Col. Richard L., 316.

Jones v. Mayer, 605.

Jordan, Robert E., III, 592.

Justice, Department of, 497, 505, 610.

Katzenbach, Nicholas B., 513.

Kean, Maj. Gen. William B., 436-37.

Keeler, Leonard, 211.

Kelly Field, Tex., 128.

Kennedy, John F. and civil rights, 473, 477, 504-06, 508-10, 586, 620; and Gesell Committee, 535, 537, 546; and training programs, 574.

Kennedy, Robert F., 504, 506, 531-32, 553, 596.

Kenworthy, Edwin W., 350-53, 356, 360, 362, 365-70, 377-78, 408, 430.

Kerner Commission, 623.

Key West, Fla., 291, 479, 498.

Kilgore, Harley M., 212, 392n.

Kimball Dan A., 240, 336, 359, 413, 418-20, 484.

King, Admiral Ernest J., 59n, 77, 82, 85-86, 88-90, 91, 94, 166.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 478-79, 588.

Kitzingen Air Base, Germany, 217-19, 450.

Knowland, William F., 224.

Knox, Frank, 20n, 100; and early views on integration, 59-61, 63-64, 101; and induction of Negroes into the Navy, 66-67, 70-71, 81-82, 86-87; and the Marine Corps, 106-07.

Korean War, 431-34, 460, 462-65, 613, 617.

Korth, Fred, 452-53, 488, 562-63.

Krock, Arthur, 316.

Kuter, Maj. Gen. Laurence S., 401.

Labrador, 38.

LaFollette, Robert M., Jr., 187.

Lamb, Ann E., 267.

Langer, William, 308.

Lanham, Brig. Gen. Charles T., 344-46, 361.

Lautier, Louis R., 210, 302n.

Lee, Ens. John, 246.

Lee, Lt. Gen. John C. H., 51-52, 228.

Lee, Ulysses, 39, 137.

Legal assistance, 581, 587, 591, 598.

LeGette, Col. Curtis W., 171.

LeHavre, France, 128.

Lehman, Herbert H., 392n, 393.

Leva, Marx, 234, 301, 308, 311, 313, 327, 343-44.

Lewis, Anthony, 499.

Lewis, Fulton, Jr., 49.

Lewis, Ira F., 302.

Lightship No. 115, 122.

Little Rock, Ark., 476, 477.

Little Rock, Air Force Base, Ark., 496-98.

Local commanders, Air Force, 400-401, 408.

Local commanders, armed forces and equal opportunity matters, 556, 561-64, 582-85, 592-93, 608, 621; and Gesell Committee's recommendations, 539-44, 554, 560, 620; and integration of off-base schools, 597-99; and local community attitudes, 502-03; and off-base housing, 600-601.

Local commanders, Army and discipline, 207; and off-base discrimination, 39; and on-base discrimination, 36, 42, 44-45.

Local commanders, Navy, 83.

Lockbourne Field, Ohio, 275, 277, 281-82, 286, 341, 398-99, 402-03.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 307.

Logan, Rayford W., 11.

Long, John D., 235n.

Long Island National Cemetery, 224.

Louis, Joe, 66, 300.

Lovett, Robert A., 30, 489.

Luckman, Charles, 295n, 314, 314n.

McAfee, Capt. Mildred H., 86-88.

McAlester Naval Ammunition Depot, Okla., 109, 254, 263.

MacArthur, General Douglas, 14, 197, 439, 444, 463.

McAuliffe, Maj. Gen. Anthony C., 432-33, 441, 443, 449-51, 453-54, 457.

McCloy, John J., 21, 23, 128, 188 and Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies, 34-35, 42-43, 46, 56-57; and postwar use of black troops, 130-31, 135, 143, 153, 154n, 157-58, 165, 558.

McConnaughy, James L., 319, 320.

McCrea, Vice Adm. John L., 383.

MacDill Airfield, Fla., 209, 277.

McFayden, Brig. Gen. B. M., 392.

McGill, Ralph, 313.

McGowan, Maj. Gen. D. W., 594.

McGrath, Earl J., 489.

McGrath, Howard J., 314.

MacKay, Cliff W., 302n.

McMahon, Brian, 314.

McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J., 43.

McNamara, Robert S., 502, 504, 509, 609; and Civil Rights Act of 1964, 590-91; and equal opportunity directive (1963), 547-48, 556, 619-21; and equal treatment and opportunity, 530, 578-79; and Gesell Committee, 536, 546-49; and the National Guard, 519, 593; and off-base housing, 517, 600, 602-08; and off-limits sanctions, 547-48, 556, 581, 604-05; and organization of civil rights apparatus, 558-59, 563, 566; and racial reform directives, 511, 513, 516-17; and voluntary action programs, 582, 586.

McNarney, General Joseph T., 210.

McNutt, Paul V., 32, 70-71.

Macy, John W., Jr., 575.

Manhattan Beach Training Station, N. Y., 114-15, 121-22.

Manpower shortages, black in the Air Force, 280, 282-83; in the Army, 32-33, 178, 219-22; in the Navy, 74, 414-15, 426.

March, General Peyton C., 235.

March on Washington Movement, 16.

Mare Island, Calif., 92.

Marine Air Group, 33, 463.

Marine Air Wing, 1st, 463.

Marine Barracks, Dahlgren, Va., 467.

Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C., 467.

Marine divisions 1st, 463-64; 2d, 269.

Marine regiments 5th, 463; 7th, 463-64.

Maris, Maj. Gen. Ward S., 441.

Marr, Lt. Col. Jack F., 287-88, 288n, 342, 616.

Marshall, Burke, 513, 537, 547.

Marshall, General George C., 43, 49, 55; and integration, 20-22, 31, 42, 131, 153; as Secretary of Defense, 380, 392-93, 435, 443, 449, 619.

Marshall, S. L. A., 434.

Marshall, Thurgood, 15, 92, 124, 438-39, 533.

Martin, Louis, 302n.

Mason, 77-78, 86.

Matthews, Francis P., 295n, 387, 412-13.

Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., 404, 493, 511.

Maxwell Field, Ala., 28.

Mays, Benjamin E., 302n.

Meader, George, 212.

Medals of Honor, 440.

Mediterranean theater, 190, 197.

Meetings, segregated, 564-66.

Miami Beach, Fla., 30, 50, 244.

Midway, 481.

Miller, Donald L., 559n.

Miller, Dorie (Doris), 58, 58n.

Miller, Lt. Col. Francis P., 212.

Miller, Loren, 302n.

Minneapolis Spokesman, 408.

Mississippi Summer Project, 588-89.

Mitchell, Clarence, 384, 393-94, 474, 478-79, 484.

Mobilization plans, 10-13, 18-19, 24, 28.

Montford Point, N. C., 101, 108-09, 253-55, 258, 269, 335.

Montgomery, Ala., 503.

Morale in the Air Force, 282, 398-99; in the armed forces, 528, 531, 542; in the Army, 20, 34-39, 350-51, 442; in the Marine Corps, 105, 110, 469-71; in the Navy, 75, 148-49.

Morgan v. Virginia, 475.

Morris, Thomas D., 586, 603.

Morse, Wayne, 303, 390.

Morse, Brig. Gen. Winslow C., 154.

Moskowitz, Jack, 559n.

Multer, Abraham J., 393, 595.

Muse, Benjamin, 537, 542, 552, 621.

Myrdal, Gunnar, 3, 9, 14.

Nash, Philleo, 310-11, 313, 366, 369.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Army, 31, 49, 293, 438, 518; and enlistment quotas, 186; and integration in the armed forces, 8, 14-16, 126, 304, 500; and the Marine Corps, 462; and the Navy, 62, 66; and off-limits sanctions, 557; and racial violence, 393; and segregated dependents' schools, 498; and segregated national cemeteries, 225.

National Defense Act of 1945, 320, 322.

National Defense Conference on Negro Affairs (1948), 243, 285, 304-05, 324.

National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence (1946), 294.

National Guard continued segregation in, 518-20, 553-54; and Executive Order 9981, 318-22; integration of, 593-95.

National Guard divisions, 40th and 45th, 443, 445-46.

National Negro Congress, 8, 66.

National Negro Publishers Association, 302.

National Security Act of 1947, 297-98.

National Urban League, 8, 95, 126, 241, 414, 615.

Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, 246-47, 414-15.

Navy Circular Letter 48-46, 168-70.

Nelson, Lt. Dennis D., 244, 246, 250, 305, 484; and recruitment of officer candidates, 247, 414, 417; and reform of Steward's Branch, 242-43, 419.

New Orleans, La., 476.

New Orleans Naval Air Station, La., 495.

New York Times, 304, 324, 363.

Newspapers. See Press, Negro; publications by name.

Nichols, Lee, 426-27, 493-94.

Niles, David K., 294-95, 314, 365-66, 373-74.

Nimitz, Admiral Chester W., 94, 166-67.

Nkrumah, Kwame, 509.

Noble, Maj. Gen. Alfred H., 334.

Norfolk, Va., 73, 77, 483, 485, 498.

Norfolk Journal and Guide, 163, 258.

Northland, 118.

Nugent, Maj. Gen. Richard E., 287-88, 405.

Nunn, William G., 302n.

Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy, 72, 74-75, 96, 247-48.

Occupational distribution of assignments, 523-27, 572-73.

Occupational specialties, 177, 194-95, 201, 354-55, 377, 524-27, 572-73.

Off-base equal opportunity inventories, 583-85, 592.

Off-limits sanctions by Department of Defense and housing, 580, 604-05, 608, 621; and question of using, 532-33; recommended by Gesell Committee, 543-44, 547-48, 556, 581; and requested by NAACP, 556.

Office of War Information, 40.

Officer training schools, integration of in the Air Force, 286; in the Army, 30, 47-51; in the Marine Corps, 266; in the Navy, 82, 87.

Officers, black in the Air Force, 278, 282-83, 398, 406; in the armed forces, 568-71; in the Army, 30, 36-37, 47-51, 194, 219-23, 226; in the Coast Guard, 119, 121-22; in the Marine Corps, 111, 266-67, 461, 471-72; in the Navy, 79-82, 86-87, 243-48, 332, 414-15, 417-18, 426.

Officers, white, attitudes of in the Army, 37, 133-34; in the Navy, 82-84, 89-90.

Ohly, John H., 299, 327.

OIR Notice CP75 (1952), 483-84.

Okinawa Base Command, 190.

Old, Maj. Gen. William D., 282, 284.

O'Meara, Joseph, 537.

Operations Research Office, 441-42.

Opportunity, 67.

Osthagen, Clarence H., 398.

Overhead spaces in the Air Force, 279; in the Army, 177, 195-97.

Overseas employment of black servicemen by the Army, 37-38; and the Gesell Committee, 552-53; by the Marine Corps, 109-11; restrictions on, 38, 179, 385-89.

Overton, John H., 11.

Oxford, Miss., 476, 505.

Pace, Frank, Jr., 224, 376, 377n, 395, 443-44, 447.

Padover, Saul K., 294.

Palmer, Dwight, 314.

Panama Canal Zone, 38, 179, 386.

Parachute Battalion, 555th, 190-92.

Parks, Maj. Gen. Floyd L., 186-87.

Parks, Rosa, 124, 478.

Parris Island, S. C., 334.

Parrish, Col. Noel F., 273, 279.

Passman, Otto E., 550.

Pastore, John, 392n.

Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander M., 53.

Patterson, Robert P., 21-22, 28, 46, 225; and conduct of black troops in Europe, 212-13; and Gillem Board, 153, 162-63, 215, 232; and quotas, 176, 183-84, 187-88; sued for violation of Selective Service Act, 182, 186.

Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., 494.

Paul, Norman S. and civil rights legislation, 591, 597-98; and off-base discrimination, 582, 585-86; and organization of civil rights apparatus, 558-59, 564, 566.

Paul, Maj. Gen. Willard S., 158-59, 217, 225; and assignment of black personnel, 194-96, 202, 213-14; and composite units, 192-93; and continued segregation, 231, 322; and expansion of school quotas, 198-201; and National Guard integration, 318; and postwar quotas, 176-79, 181, 185-86, 188-89; and shortage of black officers, 219-22.

Paxton, Brig. Gen. Alexander G., 322.

PC 1264, 77.

Pea Island Station, N.C., 112, 115.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 148.

Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla., 493, 542-43.

Personnel Policy Board, DOD, 398, 402; and Fahy Committee, 344-48, 358, 360; and facial designations, 381-84, 574.

Petsons, Wilton B., 485.

Petersen, 2d Lt. Frank E., Jr., 472.

Petersen, Howard C., 163-64, 232; and postwar quotas, 177, 187; and postwar racial reforms, 223-24, 279.

Philadelphia, Miss., 588.

Philadelphia Depot of Supplies, Pa., 109.

Pick, Maj. Gen. Lewis A., 154.

Pinchot, Gifford, 63.

Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., 494.

Pittsburgh Courier, 10, 126, 164, 285, 316, 367, 399, 408.

Platoons, integration of, 51-56.

Plessy v. Ferguson, 6.

Poletti, Charles, 59.

Port Chicago, Calif., 263.

Port Hueneme, Calif., 93.

Powell, Adam Clayton, and discrimination in the services, 248, 304, 388-89, 423, 425, 468, 482, 485, 532.

Prairie View A&M, Tex., 571.

Press, Negro. See also by name of publication. and equal treatment in the armed forces, 10, 42-43, 126, 132-33, 169, 258, 284-85, 302, 304; and Executive Order 9981, 316, 324, 365.

Price, Maj. Gen. Charles F. B., 110-11.

Project CLEAR, 442, 449, 457.

Promotions in the Air Force, 284; in the armed forces, 571-72; in the Army, 133, 322; in the Coast Guard, 121; in the Marine Corps, 150, 471-72; in the Navy, 75, 79, 417-18.

Provisional Marine Brigade, 1st, 463.

Public Laws 815 and 874, 487-88.

Puner, Morton, 499.

Pursuit Squadron, 99th. See Fighter Squadron, 99th.

Qualitative Distribution of Military Manpower Program, 394-95, 416-17.

Quartermaster General, 222, 225.

Quesada, Lt. Gen. Elwood R., 282.

Quotas, Air Force, 615-16.

Quotas, Army, 25-26, 32, 156n, 158, 166, 615-16; assessments of, 202-05, 458-59; and enlistment practices, 182-84, 187-89, 203; and expansion of for schools, 198-202; and the Fahy Committee, 356, 371-75, 429-30; and postwar opposition to, 176-81, 187; and qualitative balance, 184-86.

Quotas, Coast Guard, 115.

Quotas, Marine Corps postwar, 172, 174, 255-56; and postwar recruitment efforts, 257-61; in World War II, 103.

Quotas, Navy, 69-71.

Rabb, Maxwell, M., 482, 485, 492.

Racial designations, 224, 380-85, 574-77.

Racial incidents, 126, 393; in the Air Force, 409; in the Army, 38-39, 45, 128, 209-10; in the Marine Corps, 92-93, 111; in the Navy, 75, 92-94, 128-29.

Racial policies, Air Force 1940-1947, 271-80; and immediate effect of Executive Order 9981, 338-42; and military traditions, 270; and need for change of, 280-90.

Racial policies, Army and arguments for continued segregation, 227-29; and an assessment of segregation in 1948, 231-33; and enlisted opinions on integration, 229-30; and immediate effect of Executive Order 9981, 318-31; and immediate postwar. See Gillem Board; and military traditions, 20, 234-35; postwar, 213-15; and postwar opposition to quotas, 176-81, 187; and postwar performance evaluation of black troops, 132-43; and reforms in 1947, 223-26; and search for a new postwar policy, 130-32, 141-43, 151; in World War II, 17-24, 34, 39-46.

Racial policies, Coast Guard and limited integration, 118-22; pre-World War II experience, 112-13; in World War II, 114-17.

Racial policies, Marine Corps and immediate effect of Executive Order 9981, 334-38; immediate postwar, 170-74, 253-54, 266-67; and military traditions, 100, 103, 170, 174, 269; and search for a postwar policy, 149-50; and steps toward integration, 266-69; in World War II, 100-12.

Racial policies, Navy between world wars, 58; and blood processing, 36n; and commissioning of black officers, 79-82; and development of a wartime policy, 59-67; and employment of black recruits, 67-75; and failure to attract Negroes, 68-69, 248-52, 415-18, 426, 562-63; and immediate effect of Executive Order 9981, 331-34; and immediate postwar, 166-70; and military traditions, 234-35, 237, 252; and reforms under Forrestal, 84-92, 94-98; and search for a postwar policy, 143-46, 150-51; and Special Programs Unit reforms, 75-79, 82-83, 87-88.