This work covers Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) detachments
at historically African American colleges and universities
throughout the United States from the inception of the Student Army
Training Corps to the advanced programs currently in place. The
armistices following World War I allowed for ROTC programs to be
set up, World War II saw a push for recruits, and American
participation in Vietnam made use of black soldiers more than ever.
Despite African American participation in the military in war and
peace, it took nearly 60 years for black collegiate education
institutions (around 1973) to fulfill their need for Army, Navy and
Air Force ROTC programs producing commissioned officers. The book
discusses the beginnings of the ROTC programs at African American
colleges with the Student Army Training Corps and the
establishment, expansion and reorganization of the programs that
followed. The acquisition of Air Force and Navy ROTC programs are
discussed and all the revisions to the various programs thereafter,
including opening them up to women.
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