Black Sailor, White Navy : Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era / John Darrell Sherwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sherwood, John Darrell, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--United States--History--20th century.

Race discrimination.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Racism.

Protest movements--United States--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

African American sailors--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African American sailors.

African American sailors--Social conditions--20th century.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--African Americans.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

United States. Navy--History--Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

United States. Navy--African Americans--History--20th century.

Zumwalt, Elmo R., 1920---Relations with African American sailors.

Zumwalt, Elmo R.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early '70s: the Vietnam War or America's turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem. John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy and conducted scores of interviews with Vietnam veterans - both black and white - and other military personnel to reveal the full extent of racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as well as the Navy's attempts to control it. During the second half of the Vietnam War, the Navy witnessed

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

Bibliography

Appendix: Navy ranks and ratings, 1970.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814708583

0814708587

9780814786789

0814786782

OCLC:

779828371