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reception was covered by all of the local Tidewater media as well as national media. On the morning of April 13, the men were heloed out to the USS KIDD where they were given a three-day VIP tour of the ship and updated on the "modern Navy." The men departed the KIDD on the 15th after two days of "at sea" orientation and national media interviews. The highlight of the at sea cruise was the unexpected reunion of the men with one of their "long lost" classmates, Mr. James Hair, who learned of the reunion from television interviews he saw while at home in Brooklyn, NY. The morning of 16 April 1982, the men were flown to Washington, DC, via Eastern Airlines, given a tour of the Pentagon, and met with and had a two-hour lunch with the Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, then Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James Watkins, and the Chief of Navy Information, RADM Bruce Newell. The week concluded as it began, with a media covered reception, hosted by the DC Chapter of the National Naval Officers Association at the Clarendon Hotel across from the Pentagon. "In The Shadow of The Golden Thirteen - A Nice Negro Story" by Gerald Collins
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Although all sixteen members of the class passed the course, only twelve were commissioned in March 1944: Jesse Walter Arbor (1914–2000), Phillip George Barnes (1909-1949), Samuel Edward Barnes (1915-1997), Dalton Louis Baugh Sr. (1912-1985), George Clinton Cooper (1916-2002), Reginald Ernest Goodwin
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To ensure their failure, the normal training period of 16 weeks was reduced to 8 weeks for the black cadets. When they realized that someone in the Navy wanted them to wash out, the cadets covered up the windows of their barracks and studied all night. When they were tested, the entire group passed
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The Golden Thirteen, photographed on 17 March 1944. Top row: John Walter Reagan, Jesse Walter Arbor, Dalton Louis Baugh, Frank Ellis Sublett. Middle row: Graham Edward Martin, Charles Byrd Lear, Phillip George Barnes, Reginald E. Goodwin. Bottom row: James Edward Hair, Samuel Edward Barnes, George
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On Monday April 11, 1982, the Golden Thirteen were brought together for a weeklong celebration of their 1944 accomplishment. On the evening of April 12, 1982, they were feted at a reception by the Tidewater Chapter of the National Naval Officers Association at the Breezy Point Officers Club. The
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with high marks. Disbelief in the chain of command that an all-black cadet class could achieve higher scores than an all-white one meant that the black sailors had to suffer the indignity of retaking their tests. Again, all 16 passed; the class average at graduation was 3.89.
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Responding to pressure from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Adlai Stevenson, in January 1944, the Navy began an officer training course for 16 African-American enlisted men at
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the U.S. military in 1948. At the time of the Golden Thirteen's commissioning, there were approximately 100,000 African-American men serving in the United States Navy's enlisted ranks.
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In April 1942, thanks to protests and pressure from civil rights leaders and the black press, the Navy allowed black men into the general service ratings for the first time.
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Because Navy policy barred blacks from being assigned to combat ships, the first class of black officers were assigned to command shore
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In 1987, the U.S. Navy reunited the seven living members to dedicate a building in their honor at
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units, small tug and tender ships, and training African American enlisted.
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Frank E. Sublett, the last living member of the group, died in 2006.
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The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers
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The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won The Right To Wear Navy Gold
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Clinton Cooper, William Sylvester White, Dennis Denmark Nelson.
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Throughout the history of the United States until the end of
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The integration of the Negro into the United States Navy
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