Prologue: storm warning -- The black sailor : chambermaid to the braid and nothing more -- Racial unrest strikes the Army and Marines -- The Zumwalt revolution -- Kitty Hawk : the pot begins to boil -- Blow off : the Kitty Hawl riot -- More unrest : the Hassayampa riot -- The sit-down strike on the Constellation -- Negotiations with the protestors : a comedy of errors -- The Hicks Subcommittee hearings : questions and motives -- Violence on nearly every ship : race riots after Constellation -- The struggle to eliminate bias in the fleet -- From awareness to affirmation -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Navy ranks and ratings, 1970.