The Navy Department Library
Minorities and Women in the Navy
Akers, Regina. "Female Naval Reservists During World War II: A Historiographical Essay." Minerva 8 (Summer 1990): 55-61.
Bergsma, H. L. The Pioneers: A Monograph on the First Two Black Chaplains in the Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy. (NAVPERS 15503). Washington: U.S. Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1981. 23 pp.
Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II. Norman: Univerisity of Oklahoma Press, 1991. 247 pp.
Binkin, Martin, and Shirley Bach. Women and the Military. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1977. 134 pp.
Blacks in the United States Armed Forces: Basic Documents. Edited by Morris J. MacGregor and Bernard C. Nalty. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1977. 13 vols.
Butler, Elizabeth A. Navy WAVES. Charlottesville, Va.: Wayside Press, 1988. 133 pp.
Butler, Henry F., Mrs. I Was a Yeoman (F.). Washington: Naval Historical Foundation, 1967. 14 pp.
Campbell, D'Ann. "Women in Uniform: The World War II Experiment." Military Affairs 51 (July 1987): 137.
Dessez, Eunice C. The First Enlisted Women, 1917-1918. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. 93 pp.
Foner, Jack D. Blacks and the Military in American History: A New Perspective. New Perspectives in American History. New York: Praeger, 1974. 278 pp.
Gildersleeve, Virginia C. Many A Good Crusade. New York: Macmillan, 1954. 434 pp.
Godson, Susan H. "The Waves in World War II." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 107 (December 1981): 46-51.
Gunter, Helen C. Navy WAVE: Memories of World War II. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Cypress House Press, 1992. 147 pp.
Hancock, Joy B. Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1972. 289 pp.
Captain Hancock enlisted as a Yeoman (F) in World War I, re-enlisted at the beginning of World War II, and served as director of the WAVES from 1946 to 1953.
Harrod, Frederick S. "Integration of the Navy." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 105 (October 1979): 40- 47.
-----. "Jim Crow and the Navy." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 105 (September 1979): 46-53.
Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Rev. ed. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1992. 434 pp.
Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991. 167 pp.
Johnson, Lou Anne. Making Waves: A Woman in This Man's Navy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. 233 pp.
MacGregor, Morris J. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965. Defense Studies Series. Washington: Center of Military History, 1981. 647 pp.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength to Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986. 424 pp.
Nelson, Dennis D. Integration of the Negro Into the U.S. Navy. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1951. 238 pp. (Reprinted 1980 by GPO; 1982 by Octagon Books).
Purdon, Eric. Black Company: The Story of Subchaser 1264. Washington: R. B. Luce, 1972. 255 pp.
Quarles, Benjamin A. The Negro in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1961. 231 pp.
-----. The Negro in the Civil War. New York: Russell & Russell, 1968. 379 pp. (First published in 1953 by Little, Brown).
Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Sound Off! American Military Women Speak Out. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988. 259 pp.
Stiehm, Judith H. Arms and the Enlisted Woman. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1989. 331 pp.
U.S. Department of Transportation. U.S. Coast Guard. The History of Blacks in the Coast Guard From 1790. Washington: Department of Transportation, 1977. 27 pp.
Waddell, Bernard. I Am Somebody: The True Story of a Black US Navy Frogman. Boston: Quinlan Press, 1986. 253 pp.
