Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the birth of the civil rights movement
- Title
- Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the birth of the civil rights movement / Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish.
- Published by
- ©2018
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
- Author
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- Description
- xiv, 140 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is the story of Ship's Cook Third Class Doris "Dorie" Miller who, on the morning of December 7, 1941, after serving breakfast and turning his attention to laundry services aboard the USS West Virginia, heard the alarm calling sailors to battle stations. The first of several torpedoes dropped from Japanese aircraft had struck the American battleship. Miller hastily made his way to a central point and was soon called to the bridge by Lt. Com. Doir C. Johnson to assist the mortally wounded ship's captain, Mervyn Bennion. Miller then joined two others in loading and firing an unmanned anti-aircraft machine gun--a weapon that, as an African American in a segregated military, Miller had not been trained to operate. But he did, firing the weapon on attacking Japanese aircraft until the .50-caliber gun ran out of ammunition. For these actions, Miller was later awarded the Navy Cross, the third-highest naval award for combat gallantry.
- Series statement
- Williams-Ford Texas A & M University Military History Series ; Number 158
- Uniform title
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 158.
- Subject
- Miller, Doris, 1919-1943
- United States. Navy > African Americans > Biography
- United States. Navy
- Pearl Harbor, Attack on (Hawaii : 1941)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans
- Civil rights movements > United States
- African Americans
- Armed Forces > African Americans
- Civil rights movements
- Hawaii
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Contents
- "Seagoing Bellhops, Chambermaids and Dishwashers": Black Sailors in a White Navy -- "Going Nowhere": Depression-Era McLennan County -- "God's Strength and Mother's Blessing": The Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 -- "A Simple Act of Justice": The Navy Cross -- "An Everlasting Inspiration": Jim Crow in Retreat -- "Tell All My Friends Not to Shed Any Tears for Me": To Tarawa and Beyond -- "They Appreciate What I Did": The Doris Miller Legacy.
- Call number
- Sc D 19-293
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Cutrer, Thomas W., author.
- Title
- Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the birth of the civil rights movement / Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish.
- Copyright date
- ©2018
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Williams-Ford Texas A & M University Military History Series ; Number 158
- Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history series ; no. 158.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological term
- 1939-1945
- Added author
- Parrish, T. Michael, author.
- LCCN
- 2017025541
- ISBN
- 9781623496029 (hardcover)
- 1623496020 (hardcover)
- 9781623496036 (ebook)
- 1623496039 (ebook)
- Research call number
- Sc D 19-293
- JFD 18-571