Black, White & Olive Drab Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement

"One of the first Army bases to implement on a large scale President Truman's call for racial integration of the armed forces, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, quickly took its place in the Defense Department's official history of the process. What reporters, and later on, historians, overlooked was the interaction between the integration of Fort Jackson and developments - in particular, the civil rights movement - in the wider communities in which the base is situated." "In Black, White, and Olive Drab, Andrew H. Myers redresses this oversight; taking a case-study approach, Myers meticulously weaves together a wide range of official records, newspaper accounts, and personal interviews, revealing the impact of Fort Jackson's integration on the desegregation of civilian buses, schools, housing, and public facilities in the surrounding area."--BOOK JACKET.Myers, Andrew H. is the author of 'Black, White & Olive Drab Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement', published 2006 under ISBN 9780813925752 and ISBN 0813925754.