Abstract
Abstract While racial violence in the enlisted ranks pushed the US Army to address its racial crisis, Army leaders recognized that problems in the enlisted ranks were exacerbated by the drastic shortage of Black officers. The shortage of senior officers (in 1968 only one of 521 Army generals was Black) was due to decisions made long before, but numbers of Black junior officers promised little improvement. At the direction of the Department of Defense during the Nixon administration, the US Army developed a program of affirmative actions, including admissions preferences, and reevaluated its officer evaluation processes. This chapter discusses the history of affirmative action at the US Military Academy at West Point and the history of racial discrimination that preceded it, the 1972 “Butler Report,” and rotc programs at HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities).
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