Doris Miller was the first African American sailor to receive the Navy Cross for his bravery during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. NBCBLKIgnite
T. Michael Parrish, a historian and professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Miller's hometown, said in an interview:"The Navy relegated black sailors to the worst kinds of duty, the lowest grades and the least respected. They were relegated to the kitchens, to cleaning and swabbing the deck, to being abused and mistreated.
"Finally, members of Congress, along with the black press, contacted the White House, and President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the secretary of the Navy to release his name and to give him a major award, the Navy Cross," said Parrish, a co-author of"Doris Miller, Pearl Harbor, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement.”
"This will be the second ship named in honor of Miller and the first aircraft carrier ever named for an African American,"Modly told the Pearl Harbor crowd."This is also the first aircraft carrier to be named in honor of an enlisted sailor. ": “It wasn't hard. I just pulled the trigger, and she worked fine,” he said. “I had watched the others with these guns. I guess I fired her for about 15 minutes.
"Over and over again, civil rights leaders and the black press and Congress members mentioned Doris Miller's importance as the catalyst resulting in the modern civil rights movement of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. His actions were a springboard for the movement.""A black man from my hometown stepped up to save America, Johnson said. “I followed my father all over the neighborhood to collect money for Doris Miller to give him something when he came home.
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