Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement /

This is the story of Ship's Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller who, on the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, heard the alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several torpe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Cutrer, Thomas W. (Autor), Parrish, T. Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Miller, Doris, > 1919-1943.
United States. > Navy.
États-Unis. > Navy > Noirs americains > Biographies.
United States. > Navy > African Americans > Biography.
Civil rights movements.
Armed Forces > African Americans.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
HISTORY > Military > Veterans.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Noirs americains.
Pearl Harbor, Attaque sur, 1941 > Biographies.
Civil rights movements > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 > Biography.
United States.
Hawaii.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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