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  • Goldberg, Dan C., 1984- author.
     
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  • United States. Navy -- African Americans.
     
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  • United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
     
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  • United States -- Armed Forces -- African American officers -- History -- 20th century.
     
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  • United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century.
     
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    The golden thirteen : how Black men won the right to wear Navy gold / Dan C. Goldberg.
    by Goldberg, Dan C., 1984- author.
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    Boston : Beacon Press, [2020]
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  • United States. Navy -- African Americans.
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  • United States. Navy -- Officers -- Biography.
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  • United States -- Armed Forces -- African American officers -- History -- 20th century.
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  • United States -- History, Naval -- 20th century.
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    9780807021583 (hardcover) :
    080702158X (hardcover) :
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    272 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
    Contents: 
    "We're sending you up to Great Lakes." -- "Don't put your time in Negroes." -- "I just don't believe you can do the job." -- "We are discriminated against in every way." -- "Would it be demanding too much to demand full citizenship?" -- "A cordial spirit of experimentation" -- "As good as any fighting men the US Navy has" -- "You are now men of Hampton." -- "I feel very emphatically that we should commission a few Negroes." -- "You can make me an officer, but my parents made me a gentleman." -- "His intelligence and judgment are exceptional." -- "You forget the color and remember the rank." -- "There is that salute you never got."
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    "This is the story of the thirteen black men who broke one of the military's most rigid racial barriers and integrated the officer corps of the United States Navy."--
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    Hawaii State LibrarySocial Science & Philosophy359.00923 GoChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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