ls and counterproposals, 360-68;
and Army quotas, 356, 371-75, 429-30;
assessment of, 375-78;
and Department of Defense racial policy, 343-48;
and enlistment standards, 357-59;
and initial recommendations, 357-58;
and military efficiency in the Army, 350-56, 428, 613;
and the Navy, 352, 357-58, 412, 425-26;
purpose of, 348-50.

Committee for Negro Participation in the National Defense Program
(1938), 10.

Committee on Negro Personnel (Navy), 144-46, 151.

Community facilities, integrated, availability of for servicemen, 512-14.

Composite Group, 477th, 275, 278.

Composite units
in the Army, 189-93;
in the Marine Corps, 268-69, 335.

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 126, 478, 504.

Construction Battalion, 80th, 75.

Contract compliance program, 510_n_.

Cooke, Brig. Gen. Elliot D., 212.

Crabb, Brig. Gen. Jarred V., 283.

Craig, Maj. Gen. Lewis A., 431-32.

Craig Air Force Base, Ala., 480, 493.

Crime and disease rates, 206-09, 219, 273.

_Crisis, The_, 9, 14, 66, 133.

Daniels, Jonathan, 294, 313.

Darden, Colgate, 313.

Darden, Capt. Thomas F., 76.

Davenport, Roy K., 199, 204, 352-56, 358, 370-72, 380, 394-95,
535_n_, 576.

Davis, Col. Benjamin O., Jr., 275, 283-84, 286, 341, 400, 402.

Davis, Brig. Gen. Benjamin O., Sr., 19, 37, 39, 48, 53, 231.

Davis, Dowdal H., 302_n_, 408.

Davis, John W., 302_n_.

Dawson, Donald S., 313-14, 316.

Dawson William L., 314.

Defense, Department of, 297-99;
and basic regulations on equal opportunity, 564, 566;
and civil rights, 298-308, 510-17;
and civilian communities, 473, 479-83, 500, 607-08, 620-21;
and discrimination in the services, 1950's, 473-74, 482-83, 500;
and discrimination within the services, 1960's, 566-80;
and equal opportunity directive, 1963, 547-51, 556-57, 581, 619-21;
and field of community race relations, 531-35;
and integration of dependents' schools, 489-97, 596-99, 620;
and off-base discrimination, 500-03, 510-16, 583-85;
and off-base housing, 515-16, 584-85, 589, 598-606, 621;
and off-limits sanctions, 531-34, 543-44, 547-48, 556-57, 581, 604-05,
608, 621;
and organization of a civil rights office, 558-66;
and overseas assignments, 385-89;
and racial designations, 380-85, 574-77;
and voluntary compliance programs, 581-86, 592-93, 602-03, 607-08,