l bibliography, this work tends to
emphasize the influence of the civil rights advocates and Harry Truman
on the integration process. The reader will also benefit from
consulting Lee Nichols's pioneer work, _Breakthrough on the Color
Front_ (New York: Random House, 1954). Although lacking documentation,
Nichols's journalistic account was devised with the help of many of
the participants and is still of considerable value to the student.
The reader may also want to consult Richard J. Stillman II's short
survey, _Integration of the Negro in the U.S. Armed Forces_ (New York:
Praeger, 1968), principally for its statistical information on the
post-Korean period.

The role of President Truman and the Fahy Committee in the integration
of the armed forces has been treated in detail by Dalfiume and by
Donald R. McCoy and Richard T. Ruetten in _Quest and Response:
Minority Rights and the Truman Administration_ (Lawrence, Kansas: The
University of Kansas Press, 1973). A valuable critical appraisal of
the short-range response of the Army to the Fahy Committee's work
appeared in Edwin W. Kenworthy's "The Case Against Army Segregation,"
_Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science_ 275
(May 1951):27-33. In addition, the reader may want to consult William
C. Berman's _The Politics of Civil Rights in the Truman
Administration_ (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1970) for a
general survey of civil rights in the Truman years.

The expansion of the Defense Department's equal treatment and
opportunity policy in the 1960's is explained by Adam Yarmolinsky in
_The Military Establishment: Its Impacts on American Society_ (New
York: Harper & Row, 1971). This book is the work of a number of
informed specialists sponsored by the 20th Century Fund. A general
survey of President Kennedy's civil rights program is presented by
Carl M. Brauer in his _John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction_
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1977). The McNamara era is
treated in Fred Richard Bahr's "The Expanding Role of the Department
of Defense as an Instrument of Social Change" (Ph.D. dissertation,
George Washington University, 1970).

Concerning the rise of the civil rights movement itself, the reader
would be advised to consult C. Vann Woodward's masterful _The Strange
Career of Jim Crow_, 3d ed. rev. (New York: Oxford University Press,
1974), and the two volumes composed by Gesell Committee member
Benjamin Muse, _Ten Years o