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education of 15,000 students each year in 55 colleges and universities.  There are presently two Negroes at Annapolis, and nine Negroes in the Holloway program.  There are also 13 Negro college students taking summer training in the Reserve Officers Corps.

Although the competition for the Holloway scholarships is rigorous, the Committee felt the small number of Negroes participating in its benefits was due partly to ignorance of the program among Negro students and partly, perhaps, to a suspicion that the Navy, on the basis of its grudging and negligible commissioning of Negroes in World Ward II, did not welcome Negro officers.  The Committee again thought the Navy should make quite clear that there were no racial restrictions upon Holloway scholarships and no racial bars to a Navy commission, except to the extent that Negroes winning a Holloway scholarship are automatically limited to their selection of a school to those Holloway colleges which admit Negroes.

While the Committee was satisfied that Negroes in general service enjoyed equal treatment and opportunity, it did not find evidence of discrimination against Negroes in the steward's branch.  Chief stewards in the Navy, it learned, received the pay and the perquisites, but not the grade, of chief petty officer.  The same was true of fire, second, and third-class stewards.

In the hope of increasing the number of Negroes in general service and the Holloway program, and to correct the inequality in the steward's branch, the Committee recommended in May 1949 that-

1. The Navy, in its recruiting literature and press releases, make evident its policy of utilizing qualified Negroes in all general service ratings on the same basis as white personnel.

2. A number of Negro Reserve officers be recalled to active duty to serve in the recruiting program.


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