e burden of deciding
an applicant's race, with the concomitant complaints and potential
civil suits, back on the services.

[Footnote 15-13: SR 615-105-1 (AFR 39-9), 6 Sep 50.]

[Footnote 15-14: BuPers Cir Ltr 84-50, 1 Jun 50.]

At the time the Army did not see this responsibility as a burden and
in its quest for uniformity was willing to assume an even greater
share of the decision-making in a potentially explosive issue. On 7
August the Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, asked the Personnel
Policy Board to include Army induction centers in the directive meant
originally for recruiting centers only.[15-15] In effect the Army was
offering to assume from Selective Service the task of deciding the
race of all draftees. The board obtained the necessary agreement from
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, and Selective Service was thus relieved of
an onerous task reluctantly acquired in 1944. On 29 August 1950 The
Adjutant General ordered induction stations to begin entering the
draftee's race in the records.[15-16]

[Footnote 15-15: Memo, Dep Asst CS/G-1 for Dep Dir of
Staff, Mil Pers, PPB, 7 Aug 50, sub: "Race" Entries
on Induction Records, PPB 291.2. The Director,
Personnel and Administration, was redesignated the
Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, in the 1950
reorganization of the Army staff; see Hewes, _From
Root to McNamara_.]

[Footnote 15-16: Memo, Dir, PPB Staff, for Dep ACS,
G-1, 29 Aug 50, sub: "Race" Entries on Induction
Records, PPB 291.2 (27 Aug 50); Memo, Chief, Class
and Standards Br, G-1, for TAG, 6 Sep 50, same sub,
G-1 291.2 (11 Oct 49); Ltr, Dir, Selective Service,
to Actg Dir of Production Management, Munitions Bd,
27 Nov 50, copy in G-1 291.2; G-1 Memo for Rcd,
attached to G-1 DF to TAG, 28 Dec 50, same sub, G-1
291.2 (11 Oct 50).]

The considerable staff activity devoted to definitions of race between
1949 and 1951 added very little to racial harmony or the cause of
integration. The simplified racial categories and the regulations
determining their application continued to irritate members of
America's several minority groups. The ink was hardly dry on the new
regulatio