50,474 28,332 56.1

First Army: Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island, Vermont

White 49,171 12,989 26.4
Black 7,937 3,976 50.1

Second Army: Delaware, Washington,
D.C., Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia,
West Virginia

White 48,641 5,888 12.1
Black 9,563 4,255 44.5

Third Army: Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee

White 30,242 5,786 19.1
Black 20,343 13,772 67.7

Fourth Army: Arkansas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

White 15,048 2,039 13.5
Black 4,796 2,988 62.3

Fifth Army: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Wisconsin, Wyoming

White 51,117 4,495 8.9
Black 5,723 2,684 46.9

Sixth Army: Arizona, California, Idaho, 1 1 1
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah,
Washington

White 41,459 5,007 12.1
Black 2,112 657 31.1

This problem became critical for black enlistments in the mid-1950's
when the services, with less need for new servicemen, raised the
mental standards for enlistees, denying Group IV men the right to
enlist. (An exception to this pattern was the Navy's decision to
accept Group IV enlistments in 1956 and 1957 to replace post-Korean
enlistment losses.) In terms of total black representation, however,
the new mental standards made a lesser difference (_Table 17_).
Denying Group IV men enlistment during the 1950's only increased their
number in the draft pool, and when the Army stepped up draft
inductions in the early 1960's the number of Group IV men in uniform,
including Negroes, rapidly increased.

Table 17--Nonwhite Inductions and First Enlistments, Fiscal Years
1953-1962[1]

Fiscal | Total | Percent Nonwhite
Year |Accessions| DOD| Army