Record #:

16155

Author(s):

Albright, Alex

Abstract:

Military branches still racially segregated troops during World War II but the Navy decided to break with traditional roles for black seamen when it formed the B-1 Band. The state's best black musicians comprised this musical troop which would be the first time black seamen served in any other naval position outside of the galleys.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 1986, p13-16, il

Subject(s):

African American musicians; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--African Americans; United States. Navy--B-1 Band