Word: regimentations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surveys his army, he sees it not as one unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
Although mixed Officers' Candidate Schools have been established, democracy in the ranks is still lacking. The refusal by the War Department of proposals for a mixed regiment has been one of the contributing factors to low morale among Negroes. So, too, has the failure of the Army to educate the soldier on racial problems, to offset prejudices not only against the Negro in the United States, but against our colored allies throughout the world. The War Department did not believe such information was necessary since "the colored soldier had won the respect of his white comrades." Meanwhile, minute data...
...traditional War Department policy of segregation has done nothing except further divide the Negro soldier from his white comrade-in-arms; it has divided the races spiritually as well as physically. Although only a token in its beginnings, the mixed regiment would offset the danger to national morale and unity inherent in segregation methods. Moreover, the organization of such a unit would have significant and heartening effect upon the morale of hundreds of millions of allies in China, India, and Africa who would find in it a concrete instance of the democratic ideal for which we fight...
...hesitation of the War Department to organize a mixed regiment has been due, in part, to the feeling that it would be ineffectual, that colored and white Americans could not live and fight together. But the Army has mixed Negroes and whites in Officer Candidate Schools, and the results have been thoroughly favorable. There have been no difficulties, and the men are learning to respect each other as fellow Americans fighting in a common cause. Secondly, the mixed regiment has been proposed as a purely voluntary group. Those men who have not yet grown out of their natural racial prejudices...
Until now, the only concern shown at Harvard for the establishment of the mixed regiment has been the half-hearted ineffectual attempts of minority groups to petition the student body. But because of the special importance of this measure, the Student Council, as a non-partisan sponsor, could step beyond its normal activity and circulate petitions for a mixed regiment. Action is necessary; the Council can act best, without political affiliation, to gather the opinion of the student body: opinion which will call for the beginning of a change in the radical attitudes of the nation...