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Book Review


Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and the Civil Rights Movement. By Andrew H. Myers. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. x, 287 pp. $39.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2575-2.)
The successful racial integration of Fort Jackson, South Carolina, during the Korean War serves as a model for what military leadership can accomplish. Also a success is Andrew H. Myers's account of not only the integration process, but the entire racial history of the post, from the arrival of the first blacks in 1940 through the Vietnam War. This is local history at its best. We learn about the installation and its people, the local white and black communities in the nearby capital, Columbia, and national events affecting conditions at Fort Jackson. . . .
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