Reef Points, 1945-1946
Author | : United States Naval Academy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Midshipmen |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States Naval Academy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Midshipmen |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert J. Schneller, Jr. |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814740553 |
The African-American Community's Battle to Combat the U.S. Naval Academy's Legacy of Racism
Author | : Robert John Schneller |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603444173 |
During the twentieth century, the U.S. Naval Academy evolved from a racist institution to one that ranked equal opportunity among its fundamental tenets. This transformation was not without its social cost, however, and black midshipmen bore the brunt of it. Blue & Gold and Black is the history of integration of African Americans into the Naval Academy. The book examines how civil rights advocates? demands for equal opportunity shaped the Naval Academy?s evolution. Author Robert J. Schneller Jr. analyzes how changes in the Academy?s policies and culture affected the lives of black midshipmen, as well as how black midshipmen effected change in the Academy?s policies and culture. Most institutional history is written from the top down, while most social history is written from the bottom up. Based on the documentary record as well as on the memories of hundreds of midshipmen and naval officers, Blue & Gold and Black includes both perspectives. By examining both the institution and the individual, a much more accurate picture emerges of how racial integration occurred at the Naval Academy. Schneller takes a biographical approach to social history. Through written correspondence, responses to questionnaires, memoirs, and oral histories, African American midshipmen recount their experiences in their own words. Rather than setting adrift their humanity and individuality in oceans of statistics, Schneller uses their first-hand recollections to provide insights into the Academy?s culture that cannot be gained from official records. Covering the Jim Crow era, the civil rights movement, and the empowerment of African Americans from the late 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Blue & Gold and Black traces the transformation of an institution that produces men and women who lead not only the Navy, but also the nation.
Author | : H. Michael Gelfand |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807877476 |
Since 1845, the United States Naval Academy has prepared professional military leaders at its Annapolis, Maryland, campus. Although it remains steeped in a culture of tradition and discipline, the Academy is not impervious to change. Dispelling the myth that the Academy is a bastion of tradition unmarked by progress, H. Michael Gelfand examines challenges to the Naval Academy's culture from both inside and outside the Academy's walls between 1949 and 2000, an era of dramatic social change in American history. Drawing on more than two hundred oral histories, extensive archival research, and his own participatory observation at the Academy, Gelfand demonstrates that events at Annapolis reflect the transformation of American culture and society at large in the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. In eight chapters, he discusses recruiting and minority midshipmen, the end of mandatory attendance at religious services, women's experiences as they sought and achieved admission and later served as midshipmen, and the responses of multiple generations of midshipmen to societal changes, particularly during the Vietnam War era. This cultural history not only sheds light on events at the Naval Academy but also offers a novel perspective on democratic ideals in the United States.
Author | : United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1872 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Colorado School of Mines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles E. Herdendorf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Erie, Lake |
ISBN | : |