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Navy's Enterprise Faces Slow Race to Integration
Aboard the USS Enterprise off North Vietnam, Navy data and sailor accounts show limited progress toward racial integration. Of 4,000 to 5,000 crew, no Negro officers or warrant officers and few high ranks exist, while incidents and bias surface within the ship’s crew and at Subic Bay.
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Enterprise
North Vietnam
U.S
William Wells
Long Beach
Calif
Ness
Navy
Marine Corps
Washington
U.S. Navy
Henry L. Miller
Miller
Olongapo City
United States Naval Base
Subic Bay
Philippines
I. W. Linder
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Comdr
Samuel L. Gravely Jr