The Turning Tide

The Turning Tide
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The Turning Tide: From the Desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1948-1956) (Milestones in Black American History)

Information on The Turning Tide from the publisher:

This book recounts not only the taking of the U. S. military fortress but the triumphs-and setbacks-that followed it.

Description of Margaret Dornfeld, author of The Turning Tide:

The Turning Tide 1948-1956, from the desegregation of the Armed Forces to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With extraordinary distinction, African Americans served their nation in every conflict from the Revolution to World War II. But they served alone. Decade after decade, the U.S. armed forces assigned black recruits to their own separate divisions, mess halls, recreational facilities, barracks, and even post exchanges. Black leaders had assailed military Jim Crow with every weapon at their command, all to no avail- until 1948. That year, thanks in great measure to the tireless crusade of labor leader A. Philip Randolph (pioneering founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters), Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and countless other black activists, President Harry S.Truman signed the order integrating the military of the world's greatest democracy. Black and white, soldiers with the same instincts and the same valor now marched on the same road. The Turning Tide recounts not only the taking of the U.S. military fortress but the triumphs and setbacks that followed it. The story concludes in 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, where a host of determined African Americans, including Rosa Parks and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., won a stunning victory that would forever change the way Americans lived. Recommended for Upper Elementary - Middle School.