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Trailblazer The US Navy’s First Black Admiral by Vice Adm Samuel L Gravely Jr US
Trailblazer The US Navys First Black Admiral by Vice Adm Samuel L Gravely Jr USN with Paul Stillwell
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
271 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
Coauthor's Notevii
Prefacexi
List of Abbreviations and Acronymsxvii
1Richmond1
2New to the Navy7
3First Sea Duty20
4Civilian Interlude32
5Recruiting37
6USS Iowa42
7USS Toledo55
8Corn ThreeNewYork City66
9USS Seminole76
10On-the-Job Training87
11USS Theodore E. Chandler93
12USS Falgout107
13Naval War College124
14Housing Still a Problem128
15Defense Communications Agency131
16USS Taussig, 1966139
17USS Taussig, 1967-68158
18Satellite Communications Program169
19USS Jouett174
20Director of Naval Communications193
21Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two202
22Eleventh Naval District210
23Third Fleet216
24Defense Communications Agency226
25After the Navy229
Afterword239
Index263
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
A Navy pioneer, Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely was the first African American to be commissioned an officer in the U.S. Navy, the first to command a Navy ship, the first to command a fleet, and the first to become an admiral. Gravely was selected for that rank in 1971. Eventually he retired from active duty in 1980 as a vice admiral, after rising to command 100 warships and 60,000 Sailors and Marines while based at Pearl Harbor.
Throughout his career Vice Admiral Gravely served as a role model for thousands of black naval officers who came after himcompelling, given the fact that he had no such role model himself. In his memoir, co-written by the noted naval historian Paul Stillwell, Gravely describes his life from his boyhood in segregated Richmond, Virginia, through his enlisted service on a World War II submarine chaser, to later tours of duty at sea and ashore. Denied housing and even jailed for impersonating an officer at the beginning of his naval career, he was determined to overcome both cultural and institutional obstacles of racism to rise through the ranks.
The U.S. Navy commissioned the guided missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) in 2010 in tribute to a man who relished destroyer service and set an example for generations of Navy men and women.
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