Black, White, & Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement

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University of Virginia Press, 2006 - 287 ˹éÒ

One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its place in the Defense Department's official history of the process. What reporters, and later on, historians, overlooked was the interaction between the integration of Fort Jackson and developments, in particular, the civil rights movement, in the wider communities in which the base is situated.In Black, White, and Olive Drab, Andrew H. Myers redresses this oversight; taking a case-study approach, Myers meticulously weaves together a wide range of official records, newspaper accounts, and personal interviews, revealing the impact of Fort Jackson's integration on the desegregation of civilian buses, schools, housing, and public facilities in the surrounding area. Examining the ways in which commanders and staff at the installation navigated challenges over racial issues in their dealings with municipal authorities, state politicians, federal legislators, and the upper echelons of the military bureaucracy, Myers also addresses how post leaders dealt with the potential for participation in civil rights demonstrations by soldiers under their command. Original and provocative, Black, White, and Olive Drab will engage historians and sociologists who study military-social relations, the civil rights movement, African American history, and the South, as well as those who are interested in or familiar with basic training or the American armed forces.

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Columbia and Fort Jackson
27
Fort Jackson
54
Army Integration
74
Fort Jackson after Integration
92
Military Bureaucracy
105
Fort Jackson Soldiers
160
Fort Jackson
174
Howard Levy
189
Notes
221
Sources Consulted
253
Index
267
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Andrew H. Myers is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He holds a commission as an infantry officer with more than twenty years of combined active and reserve service in the U.S. Army.

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