LONG PASSAGE TO KOREA: Black Sailors and the Integration of the U.S. Navy

Sea Power, Mar 2004 by Munns, David W

LONG PASSAGE TO KOREA: Black Sailors and the Integration of the U.S. Navy by Bernard C. Nalty, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 2003. 48 pp. $8.50. ISBN: 0-16-051355-3.

Long Passage to Korea addresses the problems posed to the U.S. government in training, recruiting and assigning African Americans into the Navy due to the racial discrimination that preceded the civil rights movement. It documents the contributions of African Americans during the Korean War as well as American Navy reliance on racially integrated crews to achieve victory.

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