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Author : Fred H. Allison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9I/5 ( download)
Download or read book Path Breakers: U.S. Marine African American Officers in Their Own Words written by Fred H. Allison and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marine Corps (U S )
Publisher : Marine Corps
ISBN 13 : 9780160920868
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pathbreakers written by Marine Corps (U S ) and published by Marine Corps. This book was released on 2013 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pathbreakers highlights the experiences of African American officers in the U.S. Marine Corps from the mid-twentieth century to the present. African Americans first served as officers shortly after World War II. The book is based on oral history interviews with 21 officers ranging in rank from captain to lieutenant general whose careers, in sum, span from Vietnam to U.S. military efforts in the Global War on Terrorism. The testimonies of the various officers document the racial climate in the Marine Corps over this period and relate the strategies and approaches taken by these individuals to achieve success despite instances of racism and discrimination. The officers also comment on and evaluate Marine Corps policies for recruiting and retaining African American officers.
Author : United States Marine Corps History Division
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975721862
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Download or read book Path Breakers written by United States Marine Corps History Division and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history anthology provides insight into the history of the African American officer experience in the U.S. Marine Corps. In the personal accounts of the 21 officers included that cover 60 years of service, the reader comes to understand how these men and women succeeded individually and also gains considerable historical perspective on the progress of integration in the Marine Corps. This project grew from two sources. One is the emphasis that the current Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, is putting on educating the Corps on the proud tradition of diversity in the service, an effort that has been staffed by Lieutenant General Willie J. Williams, the director of Marine Corps Staff. The other source was my conversations with Lieutenant General Walter E. Gaskin Sr. about the need for a broader understanding of the contributions of the pathbreaking Marines who established, built, and carried on the African American presence in the officer corps (as he explains in more detail in the preface). Generals Williams and Gaskin contributed their own stories to this volume.
Author : Kendal Weaver
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588383245
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ten Stars written by Kendal Weaver and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten Stars is a nonfiction narrative -- part biography, part oral history -- of the life story of Gary Cooper, an African American born in the depths of Jim Crow to an Alabama family that challenged the rule of segregation. The Cooper extended family, described in interludes at points within the book, has made a national mark in politics, arts, education, health care, and the military. Graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1958 as one of three African Americans in a class of 1,500, Cooper went on to become the U.S. Marines' first black commander of a combat infantry company in Vietnam. He later became the Corps' first black general from Infantry, an Alabama state legislator and governor's cabinet official, an Air Force civilian four-star who promoted the Tuskegee Airmen, and the first black U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica.
Author : Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160920714
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book NextGen Implementation Plan written by Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.) and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2013 Plan serves as a roadmap of the FAA’s ongoing transition to NextGen and provides an overview of the benefits aircraft operators and passengers are receiving from recent NextGen improvements. NextGen is the shift to smarter, satellite-based and digital technologies and new procedures to make air travel more convenient, predictable and environmentally friendly. Highlights of the Plan include the latest on metroplex initiatives, Performance Based Navigation growth, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast deployments, surface collaboration and plans for future benefits. The plan devotes an entire chapter to general aviation and recognizes the growing role of this important stakeholder.
Author : Paul W. Westermeyer
Publisher : Marine Corps Association
ISBN 13 : 9780160944123
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Legacy of Belleau Wood written by Paul W. Westermeyer and published by Marine Corps Association. This book was released on 2018 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 2017, the newly arrived president of Marine Corps University, Brigadier General William J. Bowers, ordered a lecture series, "The Legacy of Belleau Wood: 100 Years of Making Marines and Winning Battles." The series would include four lectures, and it was to be supported by an anthology produced by History Division, providing readings to the students on the topics each lecture would cover. The intent was to produce an anthology of lasting worth to Marines, broadly depicting keystone moments in the history of the Corps during the century following the Battle of Belleau Wood. This volume presents a collection of 36 extracts, articles, letters, orders, interviews, and biographies. The work is intended to serve as a general overview and provisional reference to inform both Marines and the general public of the broad outlines of notable trends and controversies in Marine Corps history--Provided by publisher.
Author : Cameron D. McCoy
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700635777
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contested Valor written by Cameron D. McCoy and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. These pioneering men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and social opposition, which called their humanity, manhood, and rights to full citizenship into question. Efforts to undermine their service compromised their right to be counted among the elite and sidelined their story to the fringes of Marine Corps and U.S. history. Cameron McCoy describes the factors and pressures leading to the racial turbulence that surfaced in the Marine Corps from the end of World War II through Vietnam, and the measures taken by civilian and Marine officials to maintain and restore organizational integrity based on a foundation of white supremacy. He examines the psychological effects of institutionalized racism on African American Marines during the Vietnam era and the emergence of a new generation of black men unwilling to submit to the traditions of a Jim Crow Marine Corps. By exploring the realities American society constructed about black Marines, this work calls attention to the diverse ways in which these men coped within a strict, prejudiced organization and found greater purpose as U.S. Marines despite an embattled image. Contested Valor weaves the experiences of black Americans in the armed forces into the larger tapestry of the American racialist past and aptly captures the dilemmas, triumphs, and pitfalls that the first African American Marines encountered during the contentious eras of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. McCoy explores the creation of organizational policies designed to minimize their footprint as U.S. Marines until the social experiment of military integration faded and illustrates the discriminatory practices that further delegitimized their wartime reputation. McCoy demonstrates that black Marines’ absence from the historical record has been compounded by the negligence and oversight of past historians as the Marine Corps reckons with its racist past and its first black Marines.
Author : Alphonse G. Davis
Publisher : Department of the Navy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pride, Progress, and Prospects written by Alphonse G. Davis and published by Department of the Navy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a straightforward and personalized account of the Corps' efforts during the last three decades to increase the presence of African-Americans within its officer ranks. This narrative represents an account of the Marine Corps' efforts to increase the presence of African-Americans in its officer ranks during the period from 1970 to 1995. The word "presence" is used instead of the term "number" in the title of this effort because it transcends the singular focus of quantity. "Presence" underscores the relative importance of certain areas that contribute to the career progression of commissioned officers. Among those areas are accessions, military occupational specialties, assignments, and promotions.
Author : Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S.)
Publisher : U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions
ISBN 13 : 9780160890802
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists are Ripping Off America written by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S.) and published by U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortunately, more than ever before, con artists are being apprehended and prosecuted. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials have reported enormous increases in tips and criminal activity since the economic calamity began in 2008. Cash redemptions are dangerous for Ponzi schemes, because when the money runs out, folks start talking. For example, at any one time, enforcement staff at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are investigating anywhere between 750 and 1,000 individuals or entities for various violations of the law. Increases in tips and fraud cases have also occurred at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in the states, and various localities around the world. The stories in this book are actual CFTC cases stemming from investigations that began with the economic downturn. These are real cases, real fraudsters, with unfortunately . . . very real victims. While, the fundamental nature of the writing in such files is, as you would imagine, very bureaucratic: this script is anything but bureaucratic. Commissioner Chilton has worked in public service for over a quarter of a century and has found that one of the most important things that can be done is to make government less puzzling and perplexing, less mysterious, and yes, less bureaucratic. While Commissioner Chilton can’t say there has been any monumental change in how folks see their government, over the years, Commissioner Chilton continues to try and do his part by communicating in a way that lets folks “in” on what is going on. This writing is an effort to continue that work. Commissioner Chilton hopes it will be a satisfying read, but more importantly, maybe some folks will avoid the tremendous tragedy that so many of our fellow citizens have endured.
Author : Michael L. Lanning
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806536608
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African American Soldier: written by Michael L. Lanning and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded. Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an education. White historians of the period, and for years after the war, ignored the contributions and impact of thousands of blacks participants for several reasons. First of all, prejudices were so deeply ingrained that it did not even occur to most whites of the time that blacks had played a significant role either as individuals who fought or labored or as a segment of the population that affected decisions. Prejudices also prevented some who did witness the contributions of African Americans from honestly reporting that blacks could perform equally with whites on the battlefield if given the opportunity. Others did not mention blacks because of the difficulty of explaining why the United States kept half a million men, women, and children enslaved while fighting for independence and liberty." From Defenders of Liberty, by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (Ret.)
