THE GOLDEN THIRTEEN
Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
1993
First American Edition
Naval Institute Press [Annapolis]
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Black cloth]
Item Number: 6543
$30.00
Description
In 1944, reacting to pressure from civil rights movement , the Navy selected sixteen of some one hundred thousand enlisted African Americans to attend a condensed version of officer’s training in order to provide the illusion of equality. Despite continued discrimination, these sixteen officers laid the ground work for future efforts at racial integration within the military. A very good copy in like dust jacket (304 pages., over 50 illustrations)