Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
Morris J. MacGregor
Library of Alexandria
This book describes the fall of the legal, administrative, and social barriers to the black American's full       participation in the military service of his country. It follows the changing status of the black serviceman from       the eve of World War II, when he was excluded from many military activities and rigidly segregated in the rest,       to that period a quarter of a century later when the Department of Defense extended its protection of his rights       and privileges even to the civilian community.<br>The work is essentially an administrative history that attempts to measure the influence of several forces, most       notably the civil rights movement, the tradition of segregated service, and the changing concept of military       efficiency, on the development of racial policies in the armed forces. It is not a history of all minorities in       the services.