1. Military policies toward Black troops prior to World War II.
2. Defense mobilization and entry into war, 1940-1942.
3. Segregation in practice: Blacks in the Armed Forces during World War II.
4. The shortcomings of military racial policies during World War II.
5. Questioning assumptions and experimenting with alternatives to segregation, 1943-1945.
6. Internal debate, reform, and stalemate, 1945-1948.
7. President Truman and the adoption of executive order 9981 in 1948.
8. The Fahy Committee and the implementation of military desegregation, 1948-1950.
9. "There's no color line in a foxhole": the Korean war and the formal completion of desegregation, 1950-1954.
10. Continuity and change in military racial policies and practices, 1953-1961.
11. The controversy over off-base discrimination against Black military personnel, 1961-1965.
