Title The golden thirteen : how Black men won the right to wear Navy gold / Dan C. Goldberg.

Publication Info.	Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]
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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	359.0092 GOLDBERG	Check Shelf
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	951.904 GOLDBERG	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	359.0092 GOL	Check Shelf

Description	272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.
Contents	"We're sending you up to Great Lakes." -- "Don't put your time in Negroes." -- "I just don't believe you can do the job." -- "We are discriminated against in every way." -- "Would it be demanding too much to demand full citizenship?" -- "A cordial spirit of experimentation" -- "As good as any fighting men the US Navy has" -- "You are now men of Hampton." -- "I feel very emphatically that we should commission a few Negroes." -- "You can make me an officer, but my parents made me a gentleman." -- "His intelligence and judgment are exceptional." -- "You forget the color and remember the rank." -- "There is that salute you never got."
Summary	"This is the story of the thirteen black men who broke one of the military's most rigid racial barriers and integrated the officer corps of the United States Navy."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	United States. Navy -- African Americans.
	United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
	United States -- Armed Forces -- African American officers -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century.
	United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
	Armed Forces -- African American officers. (OCoLC)fst01982064
	Armed Forces -- African Americans. (OCoLC)fst01351729
	Armed Forces -- Officers. (OCoLC)fst00814617
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Naval history. (OCoLC)fst01411632
Added Title	How Black men won the right to wear Navy gold
Other Form:	Online version: Goldberg, Dan C., 1984- The golden thirteen Boston : Beacon Press, [2020] 9780807021897 (DLC) 2019059059
ISBN	9780807021583 (hardcover)
	080702158X (hardcover)
	9780807021897 (ebook)

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