The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers (Bluejacket Paperback Series) (Bluejacket Books)
Naval Institute Press, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men.....