HAMPTON Isaac <br/><br/>
Black officer corps :  a history of black military advancement from integration through Vietnam / 
Isaac Hampton 
 - New York:  Routledge ,  2013 
 - xiv, 241 pages :   illustration ; 23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/> This book illuminates what they dealt with on a day to day basis including cultural differences, recist attitudes, unfair promotion standards, the civil rights movement, black power and the experience of being in ROTC at historically black colleges.  It provides a nuanced study of the people whose service reshaped race relations in the U.S armed forces ending with how the military attempted to control racism with the creation of the defence race relations institute 1971. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415531894 (hbk.) :  125.00 USD 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS --HISTORY --20TH CENTURY<br/>VIETNAM<br/>UNITED STATES -- RACE RELATIONS<br/>UNITED STATES -- ARMED FORCES<br/>UNITED STATES -- ARMED RELATIONS<br/>AFRICAN AMERICAN -- CIVIL RIGHTS -- HISTORY -- 20TH CENTURY