Rumor and misunderstanding have contributed most seriously to public criticism of the Navy's policies and practices regarding the Negro.

Alertness is required to avoid inadvertent and needless cause for suspicion of discrimination in assignment. 61 0 obj <> endobj 70 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<7739CDBD6A02994DBDEB10053E674CBA><2CEFAFA31DB544DB9B258B3794A5FA72>]/Index[61 32]/Info 60 0 R/Length 67/Prev 262589/Root 62 0 R/Size 93/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream 53, USS Independence CVL22 & USS Denver CL58 War Damage Report No. It is more difficult to appreciate the fact that even well-intentioned and admiring emphasis on supposed advantageous qualities similarly may be cause for annoyance. Battlecruisers in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1902-1922. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Negroes have to buy them if they want to read Negro news.

This procedure has produced no apparent ill effects, and will be continued and expanded.
4 (1863) Emancipation Proclamation, General Order No. Alabama, Captain Samuel Nicholson: A Monograph [pdf], Capture of CSS Florida by USS Wachusett - Report of Commander Napoleon Collins, Capture of CSS Florida by USS Wachusett - Report of Lieutenant Morris, Caribbean Tempest: The Dominican Republic Intervention of 1965, Carrier Deployments During the Vietnam Conflict, Casualties: US Navy & Marine Corps Personnel, Casualties: US Navy and Marine Corps Personnel Killed and Injured in Selected Accidents and Other Incidents Not Directly the Result of Enemy Action, Change of Command and Retirement Ceremony of the Commandant Naval District, Washington, DC, Charles Morris A Man of Letters and Numbers, Chester Nimitz and the Development of Fueling at Sea, Christmas 1932 U.S. It is, therefore, important that Bureau and activity training programs and rating policies be thoroughly explained to Negro personnel and that care be taken to make it clear that opportunities are the same for all. 41, USS O'Brien DD415 War Damage Report No. The fundamental belief, underscored at every meeting, mentioned in much of the behind-the-scenes correspondence, and evident in all the printed material put out by the Division of Negro Service, was that uncontrolled fertility presented the greatest burden to the poor, and Southern blacks were among the poorest Americans. The fact that members of a white group also waiting for their ship were assigned to similar temporary work did not keep the issue from lowering morale. The same command techniques are effective for Negro and for white enlisted personnel. 131 (1869) Economizing the Use of Coal, General Order No. There is a tendency among Negroes to be distrustful of white persons in positions of authority over them.

In 1937, North Carolina became the first state to incorporate birth control services into a statewide public health program, followed by six other southern states.

There were proportionally more Negroes in the Revolutionary Navy than in the Army of that time. The Negro Project, instigated in 1939 by Margaret Sanger, was one of the first major undertakings of the new Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA), the product of a merger between the American Birth Control League and Sanger’s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, and one of the more controversial campaigns of the birth control movement.
99 (1869) Authority Given to Fleet Officers, General Order No. Rather it is to learn and use techniques which will enable him to utilize Negro Naval personnel effectively. By so doing, they will learn much that will contribute to their success in supervising the men under them.

(MS to Lasker, July 10, 1939, Mary Lasker Papers, Columbia University, MS Unfilmed ). Satisfactory Negro performance on District craft, the manning of two combat ships (a DE [escort ship] and a PC [submarine chaser]) with predominantly colored crews, and the partial manning of an appreciable number of other ships with Negroes has demonstrated the practicality of assigning colored personnel to sea duty. However, the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Division of Plans and Operations, is in a position to be of assistance to local authorities in meeting problems involved in the utilization of Negro personnel in their activities. And among those that did, the dropout rates were high as many women would not return to white doctors for follow-up exams, though the black nurses in both Nashville and South Carolina met with greater success. Training Reduces Handicaps Use of the GCT The manning of a DE and a PC with predominantly Negro crews has been entirely satisfactory.

This pattern of thought should be passed on by each officer to the enlisted men, both White and Negro, under him. In fact, the Negro Project did not differ very much from the earlier birth control campaigns in the rural South designed to test simpler methods on poor, uneducated and mostly white agricultural communities. This book is dedicated to El Cristo Negro, my Ancestor Spirits and to the Spirits of Palo Mayombe whom have been my guides in a world of colored darkness. One reason for the effectiveness of Negro petty officers is that in their relations with the men questions of race and racial discrimination are not involved. Utilization of Civilian Skills They were particularly swayed by Robert Seibels (1890-1955), chairman of the Committee on Maternal Welfare of the South Carolina Medical Association, who was chosen by the BCFA to direct a Negro demonstration project in that state. In line with the present policy of reducing the on board complement of shore establishments, the partial manning of 25 auxiliary ships of the Fleet with Negro enlisted personnel was directed a short while after the shakedown cruises of the DE and PC mentioned above. Unpopular Jobs

Approximately 85% of the 428 skills, trades and professions had been practiced or learned by Negro inductees, although in some the numbers were small. Starting in the mid-1930s, Sanger sent field workers into the rural South to establish birth control services in poor communities and conduct research on cheaper and more effective contraceptive….The birth control movement also looked to Southern states as the ideal region in which to secure funding under New Deal legislation and to establish birth control services as part of state and federal public health  programs…. If the policy laid down by the commanding officer is impartial, fair, and reasonable, the men, white and Negro alike, are quick to realize it and to accept the situation providing it is clear that the policy will be enforced.

Difficulties may be minimized if it is realized that in most instances objections voiced by white personnel emanate from a small minority and are usually in the nature of a test of the commanding officer's mettle. The status of the newcomers as Naval personnel who are to be treated as such should be made clearly understood. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. This should be done in a straightforward manner. 99 (1914) Prohibition in the Navy, General Order No. Appendix C: Allied Participation and Contributions, Appendix F: Aircraft and Personnel Losses, US Navy instruction for the destruction of signal books, 1863, US Navy Interviewer's Classification Guide, US Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Operational Losses, US Navy Nurse Corps General Uniform Instructions, 1917, US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2002, US Navy Personnel in World War II: Service and Casualty Statistics, US Navy Personnel Strength, 1775 to Present, US Navy Sailors Operating Ashore as Artillerymen Roth, US Navy Ships Lost in Selected Storm/Weather Related Incidents, US Navy Special Operations in the Korean War, US Navy Submarines Losses, Selected Accidents, and Selected Incidents of Damage Resulting from Enemy Action, Chronological, US Occupation Assistance: Iraq, Germany and Japan Compared, US Periods of War and Dates of Recent Conflicts, US Prisoners of War and Civilian American Citizens Captured, US Radar: Operational Characteristics of Radar Classified by Tactical Application, US Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress, USS Constitution, Capture of Cyane and Levant, USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) Memorial Ceremony, USS Kearsarge Rescues Soviet Soldiers, 1960, USS Monitor Versus CSS Virginia and the Battle for Hampton Roads, USS Pirate; Selected documents on the Salvage of USS Pirate and USS Pledge, USS West Virgina, Report of Salvage, Pearl Harbor, The U.S. Navy Enlistment, Instruction, Pay and Advancement, Vessels Lost and Salvaged, Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1916, Vieques, Puerto Rico Naval Training Range: Background and Issues for Congress, Viet-Nam Free-World Challenge in Southeast Asia, Voyage of the Jamestown on Her Errand of Mercy, Destroyer Report - Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage, Destroyer Report - Torpedo and Mine Damage and Loss in Action, Submarine Report - Vol. Barnabas Lincoln, Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus, Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet.

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