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  • Official neglect: token representation, 1945-1965
  • "We make no special effort"
  • Growing up under segregation
  • Sweep it under the rug
  • "Tolerated without further attention"
  • Outside the mainstream
  • Racial policy revolution: African Americans assimilate, 1965-1976
  • "Shaking up the very dickens out of us"
  • Growing up in turbulent times
  • Forms of discrimination
  • "We're not going to stand for it"
  • Fully integrated
  • Unparalleled opportunity: African American men and women, 1976-1999
  • Toward proportional representation
  • Overall improvement and ongoing inequality
  • Racism was a fringe attitude, sexism was mainstream
  • "No white midshipman in the right mind"
  • "Blessed to have had the opportunity."