Cutrer, Thomas W.,

Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the birth of the civil rights movement /Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish. - First edition. - College Station : Texas A and M University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Williams-Ford Texas A & M University military history series ; number 158 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Seagoing Bellhops, Chambermaids and Dishwashers": Black Sailors in a White Navy -- "Going Nowhere": Depression-Era McLennan County -- "God's Strength and Mother's Blessing": The Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 -- "A Simple Act of Justice": The Navy Cross -- "An Everlasting Inspiration": Jim Crow in Retreat -- "Tell All My Friends Not to Shed Any Tears for Me": To Tarawa and Beyond -- "They Appreciate What I Did": The Doris Miller Legacy.



9781623496036

2017028485


Miller, Doris, 1919-1943.


United States. Navy --African Americans--Biography.


Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.
Civil rights movements--United States.


Electronic Books.

D767 / .D675 2017