The Navy was "desegregated" along with the other services in 1948, but when I was in it in the early 60s, it was run by a primarily-Southern officer class, like a damn plantation. It took a couple "race riots" and Admiral Zumwalt and his collection of reformers (including my friend the late Admiral Don Shelton) to finally bring the Emancipation Proclamation to the Navy.
The Navy was "desegregated" along with the other services in 1948, but when I was in it in the early 60s, it was run by a primarily-Southern officer class, like a damn plantation. It took a couple "race riots" and Admiral Zumwalt and his collection of reformers (including my friend the late Admiral Don Shelton) to finally bring the Emancipation Proclamation to the Navy.
I was thinking of the assisted living facility I lived in while my husband was sick and I thought it looked like a plantation. Black staff taking care of white residents. There were exceptions , but that was the “stage.”
The Navy was "desegregated" along with the other services in 1948, but when I was in it in the early 60s, it was run by a primarily-Southern officer class, like a damn plantation. It took a couple "race riots" and Admiral Zumwalt and his collection of reformers (including my friend the late Admiral Don Shelton) to finally bring the Emancipation Proclamation to the Navy.
I was thinking of the assisted living facility I lived in while my husband was sick and I thought it looked like a plantation. Black staff taking care of white residents. There were exceptions , but that was the “stage.”