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Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and
turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West
Virginia, Ship's Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller heard the
alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several
torpedoes dropped from Japanese aircraft had struck the American
battleship. Miller hastily made his way to a central point and was
soon called to the bridge by Lt. Com. Doir C. Johnson to assist the
mortally wounded ship's captain, Mervyn Bennion. Miller then joined
two others in loading and firing an unmanned anti-aircraft machine
gun-a weapon that, as an African American in a segregated military,
Miller had not been trained to operate. But he did, firing the
weapon on attacking Japanese aircraft until the .50-caliber gun ran
out of ammunition. For these actions, Miller was later awarded the
Navy Cross, the third-highest naval award for combat gallantry.
Historians Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish have not only
painstakingly reconstructed Miller's inspiring actions on December
7. They also offer for the first time a full biography of Miller
placed in the larger context of African American service in the
United States military and the beginnings of the civil rights
movement. Like so many sailors and soldiers in World War II, Doris
Miller's life was cut short. Just two years after the attack on
Pearl Harbor, Miller was aboard the USS Liscome Bay when it was
sunk by a Japanese submarine. But the name-and symbolic image-of
Dorie Miller lived on. As Cutrer and Parrish conclude, "Dorie
Miller's actions at Pearl Harbor, and the legend that they
engendered, were directly responsible for helping to roll back the
navy's then-to-fore unrelenting policy of racial segregation and
prejudice, and, in the chain of events, helped to launch the civil
rights movement of the 1960s that brought an end to the worst of
America's racial intolerance."
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