They Passed Every Test—Navy Still Said No In January 1944, the United States Navy conducted what some historians call a "test set up to fail." Sixteen Black enlisted men were ordered to Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois to undergo officer candidate training—but with a cruel twist: they had only eight weeks to complete a course that normally took sixteen weeks. At the time, nearly 100,000 Black sailors served in the U.S. Navy, but not a single one held an officer's commission. Under p

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