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Author:

Cutrer, Thomas W., author.

Title:

Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the birth of the civil rights movement / Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Parrish, T. Michael, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"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.

Series:

Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series ; Number 158

ISBN:

1623496020
9781623496029

OCLC:

(OCoLC)987044962

LCCN:

2017025541

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)