Source: Tab 1 to Memo, ACofS, G-1, to Asst Dir of Public Info, 6 Jun 51, sub: Queries Concerning Negro Marines.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-12: Washington Post, February 27, 1951.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-13: USMC Oral History Interview, Lt Gen Oliver P. Smith, Jun 69.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-14: MC Policy Memo 109-51, 13 Dec 51, sub: Policy Regarding Negro Marines.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-15: Memo, CMC for CG, FMF, Pacific, et al., 18 Dec 51, sub: Assignment of Negro Enlisted Personnel.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-16: Idem for Chief, NavPers (ca. Jun 51), MC files.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-17: Extract from Thomas L. Faix, "Marines on Tour (An Account of Mediterranean Goodwill Cruise and Naval Occupation Duty), Third Battalion, Sixth Marines (Reinforced), April 17-October 20, 1952," in Essays and Topics of Interest: #4, Race Relations, p. 36.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-18: The Chief of Staff was quoted in "Integration of the Armed Forces," Ebony 13 (July 1958):22.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-19: Memo, Head of Detail Br, Pers Dept, for Dir of Pers, 10 Jun 52, sub: Policy Regarding Negro Marines, MC files. This method of assigning staff noncommissioned officers still prevailed in 1976.[(Back)]
Footnote 18-20: Ibid., 4 Aug 52.[(Back)]