TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sherwood,John Darrell
TI  - Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet during the Vietnam War Era 
SN  - 9780814740361
AV  - DS559.8.B55 S53 2007
U1  - 940.54/5108996073 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American sailors
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Racism
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - African Americans
KW  - HISTORY / Military / Vietnam War
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Navy
KW  - Navys
KW  - Sherwood
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - attempts
KW  - control
KW  - during
KW  - era
KW  - extent
KW  - full
KW  - racial
KW  - reveals
KW  - unrest
KW  - well
N1  - restricted access
N2  - It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early '70s: the Vietnam War or America's turbulent racial climate. Oddly, however, these two pivotal moments are rarely examined in tandem.John Darrell Sherwood has mined the archives of the U.S. Navy and conducted scores of interviews with Vietnam veterans - both black and white - and other military personnel to reveal the full extent of racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as well as the Navy's attempts to control it. During the second half of the Vietnam War, the Navy witnessed some of the worst incidents of racial strife ever experienced by the American military. Sherwood introduces us to fierce encounters on American warships and bases, ranging from sit-down strikes to major race riots.The Navy's journey from a state of racial polarization to one of relative harmony was not an easy one, and Black Sailor, White Navy focuses on the most turbulent point in this road: the Vietnam War era
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