Description: The African-American Community's Battle to Combat the U.S. Naval Academy's Legacy of Racism
Brief description: Robert J. Schneller Jr. is an official historian in the Contemporary History Branch of the U.S. Navy's Naval Historical Center and holds a Ph.D. in military history from Duke University. He is an award-winning biographer and historian, and has published several books on American naval history, including Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War, and A Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Review Quotes: "This richly researched and judiciously written study facilitates deeper comprehension of how institutional racism preserved white hegemony in the U.S. Navy until Midshipman Wesley Brown detonated its color barrier."--Darlene Clark Hine, author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America