Book description
The story of African-Americans employed by the National Security Agency and its predecessors. It tells of the movement of African-Americans from low-level jobs in segregated work units to their rise to key positions in NSA's structure.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Race Relations on the Home Front at the Onset of WWII
- 2. 1939–1946: African-Americans Join the SIS
- 3. 1944–1946: The Commercial Code Unit
- 4. 1947: Changing Demographics
- 5. 1948–1951: The Dark Side of the Golden Age of Russian Plain Text
- 6. 1948–1951: Wanted – Key Punchers and Equipment Operators
- 7. 1948: R&D – A Different Kind of Place
- 8. 1951: Color Barrier Broken in Security Division
- 9. 1950–1954: Strides toward Broad Integration; Breakup of the Plantation
- Epilogue
- End Notes
- About the author
Product information
- Title: The Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans, WWII to 1956
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2001
- Publisher(s): Center for Cryptologic History, NSA
- ISBN: 01120100004SI
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