Long passage to Korea: Black sailors and the integration of the U.S. Navy

Introduction

The early republic

Filling the ranks

From slavery to Jim Crow

World War II experience

Into the Cold War

Impact of the Korean War

Sidebars: The impressment of black sailors ; Robert A. Smalls ; The march on Washington ; African Americans in the U.S. Coast Guard ; President Truman's Executive Order 9981 ; Black sports heroes of the Korean War era.