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| #2397538 in Books | Naval Institute Press | 1993-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.24 x6.32 x9.25l, | File type: PDF | 304 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers|By Zephyr|This book is particularly precious to me; learning more of the history of what these men experienced has been important to me and to my ability to encourage my grandson to be a responsible person in our society--given the sacrifices that were made by others, long gone. This historical accounting is n|From Publishers Weekly|In 1944, responding to pressure from Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson (the latter then serving as assistant to the Navy secretary), the Navy reluctantly turned 13 black enlisted men into officers--the first African American officers i
In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men believed they could set back the course of racial justice if they failed and banded together so all would succeed. Despite the demanding pace, all sixteen passed the course. Twelve were commissioned as ensigns and a thirteenth was made a warrant of...
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