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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: double V
    sub title: how wars, protest, and Harry Truman desegregated America's military
  name:
    name part: James, Rawn.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    edition: 1st U.S. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Traces the legal, political and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
  table of contents: The cause of liberty -- The first to come and the last to leave -- The only real neutral -- Report to God the reason why -- Tragedy and triumph : Houston and Des Moines -- The travels of Emmett J. Scott and the travails of Colonel Charles Young -- France by way of Carolina -- The lost children -- Disillusioned by Armistice -- Old draft in a new day -- Politics unusual -- Follow the gleam -- Some minor county office -- Thundering resentment in the voice of God -- The U.S.S. Miller -- The double v -- Harvest of disorder : the Army -- The Army Air Corps -- "Entitled to a showdown" : the Navy Under Secretary Frank Knox and the Truman committee -- The Navy and Marine Corps under Secretary Forrestal -- From senator to vice-president to president in 100 days -- V-day deferred -- The Noah's ark committee -- The blinding of Isaac Woodard and the signing of Executive Order 9981 -- Freedom to serve -- The museum and the mirror.
  note: Rawn James.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: African Americans
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Segregation
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African American soldiers
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Segregation
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Participation, African American
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Participation, African American
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Truman, Harry S
      name part: 1884-1972
    topic: Political and social views
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services.
  classification: UB418.A47 J36 2013
  classification: 355.0089/96073
  identifier: 9781608196081 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1608196089 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2012030030
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120730
    record change date: 20151204205533.0
    record identifier: in00003202596