Copyright by Cameron Demetrius Mccoy 2017
Copyright by Cameron Demetrius McCoy 2017 The Dissertation Committee for Cameron Demetrius McCoy certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT OF THE MARINES? THE POLITICS OF CONTESTED INTEGRATION AND THE DOMESTIC LEGACY OF THE MODERN BLACK LEATHERNECK IN COLD WAR AMERICA Committee: Leonard N. Moore, Supervisor Jeremi Suri Henry W. Brands Louis Harrison Marcus S. Cox MR. PRESIDENT, WHAT OF THE MARINES? THE POLITICS OF CONTESTED INTEGRATION AND THE DOMESTIC LEGACY OF THE MODERN BLACK LEATHERNECK IN COLD WAR AMERICA by Cameron Demetrius McCoy, B.A., M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2017 Ductus Exemplo Acknowledgements This project received support from several institutions. I wish to thank the University of Texas at Austin Department of History and the Office of Graduate Studies; the Marine Corps History Division and Library of the Marine Corps; the Marine Corps University, Archives and Special Collections Branch, Gray Research Center; the United States Army Military History Institute; the William M. Randall Library Special Collections at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington; the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History; the Lyndon Baines Johnson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman Presidential Libraries and Museums; and the Pat Tillman Foundation, and Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for funding much of my research. The members of each institution provided me with valuable advice and assistance, encouragement, and renewed ambition. Throughout my academic career, I have been supremely blessed with extraordinary friends and mentors.
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