Footnote 1-20: Lee Finkle, "The Conservative Aims of Militant Rhetoric: Black Protest During World War II," Journal of American History 60 (December 1973):693.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-21: Some impression of the extent of this campaign and its effect on the War Department can be gained from the volume of correspondence produced by the Pittsburgh Courier campaign and filed in AG 322.99 (2-23-38)(1).[(Back)]
Footnote 1-22: The Army's plans and amendments are treated in great detail in Lee, Employment of Negro Troops.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-23: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs. House of Representatives, 76th Cong., 3d sess., on H.R. 10132, Selective Compulsory Military Training and Service, pp. 585-90.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-24: Congressional Record, 76th Cong., 3d sess., vol. 86, p. 10890.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-25: 54 U.S. Stat. 885(1940).[(Back)]
Footnote 1-26: Ibid. Fish commanded black troops in World War I. Captain of Company K, Fifteenth New York National Guard (Colored), which subsequently became the 369th Infantry, Fish served in the much decorated 93d Division in the French sector of the Western Front.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-27: See especially Ltr, Houston to CofS, 1 Aug and 29 Aug 34; Ltr, CofS to Houston, 20 Aug 34; Ltr, Maj Gen Edgar T. Conley, Actg AG, USA, to Walter White, 25 Nov 35; Ltr, Houston to Roosevelt, 8 Oct 37; Ltr, Houston to SW, 8 Oct 37. See also Elijah Reynolds, Colored Soldiers and the Regular Army (NAACP Pamphlet, December 10, 1934). All in C-376, NAACP Collection, Library of Congress.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-28: Ibid. Ltr, Houston to CofS, 1 Aug 34.[(Back)]
Footnote 1-29: The Crisis 46 (1939):49, 241, 337.[(Back)]