This volume, covering 1945 to 1992, is the third of three volumes on the role of federal military forces in domestic disorders. Summarizing institutional and other changes that took place in the Army and in American society during this period, it carries the reader through the nation's use of federal troops during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the domestic upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s associated with the Vietnam War. The development and refinement of the Army's domestic support role, as well as the disciplined manner in which the Army conducted these complex and often unpopular tasks, are major themes of this volume. In addition, the study demonstrates the Army's progress in coordinating its operational and contingency planning with the activities of other federal agencies and the National Guard. --from the Foreword.

Shipping list no.: 2007-0060-P.

Prologue -- The road to Little Rock -- Intervention at Little Rock -- The road to Oxford -- The riot at Oxford -- Three troubled years -- Crisis in the north and west -- Reflections on violence -- The march on the Pentagon -- The Washington Riot of 1968 -- The Chicago and Baltimore riots -- In the wake of the riots -- Antiwar demonstrations and surveillance -- The end of the cycle -- Toward a new century.