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Fear at Fort Ord

 

March 1951 The Army’s nine training divisions were integrated by this time, after a "trouble-free and permanent" conversion period which began late in 1950. Fort Ord was the first training division "to adopt the expedient of mixing black and white inductees in the same units for messing, housing, and training."

 http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/intchron.htm

 

 

The Challenge to Institutional Racism in the United States Armed Forces and Sports Since World War II In 1949, the newly reactivated Fort Ord, California, eliminated segregation for practical reasons:

manpower shortages. Maintaining separate training facilities required a staff of 40 to 60 officers for the training of as few as 20 Negroes. The post commander Major-General Robert T. Frederick approved this common sense plan of integration.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9310/racism1.html

 

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