Word: racialization
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When the average white American soldier surveys his army, he sees it not as one unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
...Candidate Schools have been established, democracy in the ranks is still lacking. The refusal by the War Department of proposals for a mixed regiment has been one of the contributing factors to low morale among Negroes. So, too, has the failure of the Army to educate the soldier on racial problems, to offset prejudices not only against the Negro in the United States, but against our colored allies throughout the world. The War Department did not believe such information was necessary since "the colored soldier had won the respect of his white comrades." Meanwhile, minute data has been issued...
Nearly one-fourth of Harvard's present student body, 546 men, signed their names to a petition sponsored by the John Reed Society requesting a voluntary inter-racial unit in the army...
...Roosevelt, deplored the now prevalent policy of segregation of whites and Negroes in the nation's armed forces and declared the willingness of the signatories to serve in a mixed group. Prefacing the formal petition was a statement of the Society's desire to aid in the elimination of racial prejudice so that "the Negro people may with full faith in American democracy give all their effort to its defense...
...have been thoroughly favorable. There have been no difficulties, and the men are learning to respect each other as fellow Americans fighting in a common cause. Secondly, the mixed regiment has been proposed as a purely voluntary group. Those men who have not yet grown out of their natural racial prejudices will not be forced to join. Any difficulties the Army may encounter in organizing such a unit will find multifold compensation in the increased morale of all the nation's races. The equitability of this scheme can best be summed up in the words of Professor Alonzo Myers...