The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964, Second Edition
On April 5, 1945, more than sixty black officers of the U.S. Army Air Forces were arrested for entering a whites-only club at Freeman Field, Indiana, to protest the rigid segregation and unequal policies under which they and all African American airmen were forced to serve. Termed a mutiny by the white commanders at the base, the incident was one of several racial conflicts during the next four years that helped convince senior officers in the newly independent Air Force that segregation was an inefficient personnel policy. Documenting the racial integration of the Air Force from the end of World War II to the passage of the Civil Rights Act…
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- ISBN: 978-1-56098-999-8
- EAN: 9781560989998
- Produktnummer: 22289733
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 259 S.
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Alan L. Gropman is a retired Air Force colonel who served for twenty-seven years and flew more than 650 combat missions in Vietnam. He is chairman of the Department of Grand Strategy at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University.
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