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How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
Bloomsbury Press
February 2013
On Sale: January 22, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1608196089
EAN: 9781608196081
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on
July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United
States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a
heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality,
Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more
than 150 years of legal, political, and moral
struggle.??Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African
Americans had used military service to do their patriotic
duty and to advance the cause of civil rights. The fight for
a desegregated military was truly a long war-decades of
protest and labor highlighted by bravery on the fields of
France, in the skies over Germany, and in the face of
deep-seated racism on the military bases at home. Today, the
military is one of the most truly diverse institutions in
America.??In The Double V, Rawn James, Jr.the son and
grandson of African American veteransexpertly narrates the
remarkable history of how the strugge for equality in the
military helped give rise to their fight for equality in
civilian society. Taking the reader from Crispus Attucks to
President Barack Obama, The Double V illuminates the African
American military tradition as a metaphor for their unique
and dynamic role in American history.
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