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Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Army

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  • Alfred H. Hausrath

    (Operations Research Office, The Johns Hopkins University)

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In connection with a basic policy decision by the Army in 1951 on the utilization of Negro manpower, a partly quantitative operations research study was made. Factors affecting the decision to integrate Negroes into previously all-white. Army units included statistics of scores on the Army's General Classification Test, Negro and white performance in combat, and interactions between Negro and white soldiers as determined from attitudes, opinions, critical incidents, and actual behavior. It is concluded that integrated (white and Negro) units can make more effective use of available manpower than segregated units, that resistance to integration is reduced as experience in integrated units is gained, and that levels of 20 per cent Negroes and more are acceptable. The time required to extend integration to the whole Army is discussed, and difficulties presented in such a manner that a sound program can be devised. Operations Research , ISSN 0030-364X, was published as Journal of the Operations Research Society of America from 1952 to 1955 under ISSN 0096-3984.

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  • Alfred H. Hausrath, 1954. "Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Army," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 2(1), pages 17-30, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:2:y:1954:i:1:p:17-30
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.2.1.17
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    1. Loerch, Andrew G. & Harris, Carl M. & Rattner, Edward, 2000. "Racial equity, the United States Army, operations research, and social science," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 73-84, June.

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