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Proud warriors : African American combat units in World War II / by Bielakowski, Alexander M.,author.(CARDINAL)423724;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Section I: Before World War II -- African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces, 1775-1941 -- Section II: Grunts -- Infantry -- U.S. Marine Corps -- Section III: Combat Arms at a Distance -- Field Artillery -- Coast/Antiaircraft Artillery -- Section IV: Mobile Warfare and Mechanical Proficiency -- Cavalry -- Armored Force -- Tank Destroyers -- Section V: Sea Services and Technical Knowledge -- U.S. Navy -- U.S. Coast Guard -- Section VI: Officers, Pilots, and Skilled Experts -- Air Corps/Air Forces -- Section VII: Conclusions -- Post-World War II."During World War II, tens of thousands of African Americans served in segregated combat units in U.S. armed forces. The majority of these units were found in the U.S. Army, and African Americans served in every one of the combat arms. They found opportunities for leadership unparalleled in the rest of American society at the time. Several reached the field grade officer ranks, and one officer reached the rank of brigadier general. Beyond the Army, the Marine Corps refused to enlist African Americans until ordered to do so by the president in June 1942, and two African American combat units were formed and did see service during the war. While the U.S. Navy initially resisted extending the role of African American sailors beyond kitchens, eventually the crew of two ships was composed exclusively of African Americans. The Coast Guard became the first service to integrate-initially with two shipboard experiments and then with the integration of most of their fleet. Finally, the famous Tuskegee airmen are covered in the chapter on air warfare. Proud Warriors makes the case that the wartime experiences of combat units such as the Tank Battalions and the Tuskegee Airmen ultimately convinced President Truman to desegregate the military, without which the progress of the Civil Rights Movement might also have been delayed"--
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Discrimination in the military;
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Summoned at midnight : a story of race and the last military executions at Fort Leavenworth / by Serrano, Richard A.,author.(CARDINAL)648571;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-228) and index.Army justice -- Austria -- The castle -- Seven base -- White death row -- Eisenhower -- Black death row -- A great trouble -- Kennedy -- Midnight."In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. was at last gaining ground, 16 soldiers sat confined in basement cells on death row in the army's Fort Leavenworth maximum security prison in Kansas. Exactly eight were white and eight were black. All of the white soldiers were commuted. Not only were their lives spared, but they all were eventually released and returned to their families. They benefited from powerful Washington powerbrokers, including the Eisenhower administration and Congress, high-priced, specialized lawyers and a groundswell of public support. Only black soldiers were hung. They were summoned at midnight to a wooden gallows and dropped to their deaths. They enjoyed no Washington support, could not afford expensive lawyers and had little public backing. Their casefiles are meager - often containing a desperate, misspelled letter from a mother pleading for her son's life. Then in early 1961 a final case reached the Oval Office in Washington. President John Kennedy, a Democrat, a liberal, and a Catholic, a leader strong on Civil Rights, was still in his First Hundred Days when confronted with whether to spare army Private John A. Bennett. Unlike all the other condemned men, white and black, Bennett was not a murderer. He had killed no one. Instead he was sentenced to die for raping a white girl. But like the other men soldiers who were hung, Bennett was black. Were he to die, he would become the last soldier executed by the army, the last in nearly 60 years"--
Subjects: Discrimination in capital punishment; African American soldiers.; Discrimination in the military; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Executions and executioners;
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An army afire : how the US Army confronted its racial crisis in the Vietnam era / by Bailey, Beth L.,1957-Author(DLC)n 87935823 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-332) and index.A tactic of silence -- Same mud, same blood -- Defining the problem -- Leadership -- Education and training -- Culture and identity -- Off-post discrimination -- Military justice -- Affirmative actions."By the Tet Offensive in early 1968, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August of that year, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of 'same mud, same blood' were over, and by the end of the decade, a new generation of Black GIs had decisively rejected the slights and institutional racism their forefathers had endured. Acclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the Army experienced, defined, and tried to solve racism and racial tension (in its own words, 'the problem of race') in the Vietnam War era. Some individuals were sympathetic to the problem but offered solutions that were more performative than transformational, while others proposed remedies that were antithetical to the army's fundamental principles of discipline, order, hierarchy, and authority. Bailey traces a frustrating yet fascinating arc where the army initially rushed to create solutions without taking the time to fully identify the origins, causes, and proliferation of racial tension. It was a difficult, messy process, but only after Army leaders ceased viewing the issue as a Black issue and accepted their own roles in contributing to the problem did change become possible"--.
Subjects: United States. Army; Discrimination in the military; African American soldiers; Vietnam War, 1961-1975.;
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In glory's shadow : Shannon Faulkner, the Citadel, and a changing America / by Manegold, C. S.(Catherine S.),1955-(CARDINAL)655783;
Subjects: Faulkner, Shannon; Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination in higher education; Sex discrimination in higher education;
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African American Army officers of World War I : a vanguard of equality in war and beyond / by Wilson, Adam P.,1983-(CARDINAL)410327;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Debating the use of African Americans as soldiers -- The fight for a segregated officer training camp -- Life at Fort Des Moines -- Across the Atlantic; fighting two wars -- Legal battles against segregation -- The Black press: is the pen mightier than the sword -- Mentoring the next generation -- The military desegregated -- Conclusion.
Subjects: United States. Army; World War, 1914-1918; African American soldiers; African Americans; Discrimination in the military; Civil rights movements; Racism; Racism.;
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Mobilizing the South : the Thirty-First Infantry Division, race, and World War II / by Rein, Christopher M.,author.(CARDINAL)822913;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index."Throughout its history, the United States has fought its major wars by mobilizing large numbers of citizen-soldiers. While the small, peacetime, regular army provided trained leadership and a framework for growth, the citizen-soldier, from the minuteman of the American Revolution to Civil War volunteers and the draftees of World War II, have successfully prosecuted the nation's major wars. But the Army, and the nation, have never fully resolved the myriad problems surrounding the mobilization and employment of reserve troops. National Guard divisions in World War II suffered from neglect during the interwar period and Great Depression, and regular Army commanders often replaced or relieved National Guard officers, which generated lingering resentment. At the same time, draftees from across the nation diluted the regional affiliations of many units, with a corresponding effect on morale and esprit de corps. Chris Rein's study of one division, recruited from the Gulf South and employed in the Southwest Pacific Theater in 1944 and 1945, highlights the challenges of reserve mobilization, training, and the combat deployment of National Guard units. His account demonstrates the still-strong connections between the local communities that hosted and supported National Guard companies before the war, even after an influx of new personnel nationalized the units and they shipped overseas. The 31st Division, reorganized after combat deployment in World War I, consisted primarily of infantry regiments from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and, until 1942, Louisiana. Mobilized for federal service in late 1940, the division participated in the critical Louisiana and Carolina Maneuvers in 1941, but then languished for the next two years as a training organization, though it provided trained cadres and replacements for other divisions the Army deployed to Europe and the Pacific. In 1944, the division finally shipped overseas, enduring the brutal conditions in the Southwest Pacific, but successfully conducting landings on the New Guinea coast in support of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "island hopping" campaign directed at liberating the Philippines. After a change in leadership, on the second day of the amphibious assault on Morotai, the division supported the liberation of Mindanao, the southernmost major island in the archipelago, before redeploying for demobilization at the end of 1945. Rein's study traces the division's decades of duty from the interwar period, when it contended with a series of devastating natural disasters, through its mobilization and combat deployment. However, within the 31st Division's story, there are several significant issues that remain highly relevant for reserve deployment today. The first centers on the issue of World War II-era National Guard leadership. The Army implemented a "purge" of overage and less competent National Guard division commanders in order to replace them with younger officers of the regular Army. Maj. Gen. John C. Persons, a pre-war Birmingham resident and Alabama National Guard officer, commanded the division throughout the peacetime mobilization and training and the first operation in New Guinea, only to be summarily fired on the second day of the Morotai landings, an action not adequately explained in the existing literature. The second issue concerns the Army's "nationalization" of regional units. While this policy has the benefit of spreading any casualties across the nation, rather than duplicate the horrific losses of the "Bedford Boys" of the 29th Infantry Division that devastated one small Virginia community, it also erodes regional identity and esprit de corps. This work is a case study of the strength and weaknesses of units with a regional identity and explores the connections with the home front once that identity erodes. It also examines the Dixie Division's operational and strategic evolution, but just as importantly details drawn from soldiers' correspondence and oral histories to show how their exposure to a larger world, including service alongside African-American and Filipino units, changed their views on race and post-war society"--
Subjects: United States. Army. Infantry Division, 31st.; Florida. National Guard; Alabama. National Guard; Mississippi. National Guard; Louisiana. National Guard; United States. Army; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Discrimination in the military;
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Shoot like a girl [sound recording] : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front / by Hegar, Mary Jennings,author.(CARDINAL)412880; Farrell, Cynthia.narrator.(CARDINAL)353216; Recorded Books, Inc.(CARDINAL)340508;
Narrated by Cynthia Farrell.An Air National Guard officer describes her experiences after being shot down on a Medevac mission in Afghanistan and her efforts to convince the U.S. government to allow women to serve openly on the front lines.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Personal narratives.; Autobiographies; Hegar, Mary Jennings.; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; Afghan War, 2001-; Helicopter pilots; Sex discrimination against women; Sexual harassment in the military; Afghan War, 2001-;
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Engaging with politics / by Rodi, Robert,author.(CARDINAL)364437; Ross, Laura,1956-author.(CARDINAL)562621;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Internet, news media, television shows, music, and films feature more positive images of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people today than ever before. But less than a generation ago, the situation was very different. How did we get to this point of increasing visibility and respect?"--Page 4 of cover.The history of identity politics -- Marriage equality -- LGBT people in the military -- Workplace issues and discrimination.
Subjects: Juvenile works.; Literature.; Gay rights; Sexual minorities; Identity politics; Gay rights.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front / by Hegar, Mary Jennings.(CARDINAL)412880;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Hegar, Mary Jennings.; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Helicopter pilots; Sex discrimination against women; Sexual harassment in the military;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front / by Hegar, Mary Jennings,author.(CARDINAL)412880;
"On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve. . . ,"--NoveList.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Hegar, Mary Jennings.; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; United States. Air Force; Afghan War, 2001-2021; Helicopter pilots; Sex discrimination against women; Sexual harassment in the military; Afghan War, 2001-2021;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 24
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