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and had "brought him up to understand race problems." The Navy began enlisting Negro seamen on June 1, 1942, and the first class of 277 enlistees began training at Camp Robert Smalls later that month. Of that class, 222 completed the training successfully on September 3, 1942. 102 of those
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The first classes of men to be trained at the camp had "no hope of being commissioned." However, the Navy began training officer candidates at Camp Robert Smalls towards the end of 1943.
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A Navy Captain inspects Service School personnel, 2 April 1943 at Camp Robert Smalls. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives.)
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graduates were chosen to continue with specialized training, and the rest of the class was assigned to routine duties.
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Robert Smalls's great-grandson, Edward Estes Davidson, trained at Camp Robert Smalls, as did
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Yearning to breathe free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his families
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training facility, created pursuant to an order signed April 21, 1942 by
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United States Naval
Frank Knox
Secretary of the Navy
African-American
segregated by race
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Illinois
Robert Smalls
American Civil War
father
Hampton Institute
Owen Dodson
Larry Doby
Clark Terry
Charles Sebree
Executive Order 9981
Golden Thirteen


Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
ISBN
978-0-16-001925-8
Breaking the color barrier: the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black midshipmen and the struggle for racial equality
ISBN
978-0-8147-4013-2


The New Republic
Carson, Clayborne

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