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Morris J. MacGregor
b. 1931
A careful military and church historian, this Washington, D.C.–born scholar is best known for tracing the long struggle over racial integration in the U.S. armed forces. His work is valued for being deeply researched, clear-eyed, and closely tied to questions of justice and public memory.
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Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965
by Morris J. MacGregor
About the author
Born on October 11, 1931, in Washington, D.C., he studied history at The Catholic University of America, earned both his A.B. and M.A. there, and continued graduate work at Johns Hopkins and the University of Paris on a Fulbright grant. Before joining the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1968, he spent ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He became known for major works on American military history, especially Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940–1965, a landmark study of desegregation in the U.S. military. He also wrote on Black Catholics and on the history of race relations in both the Army and the Catholic Church, building a reputation as a historian willing to take difficult subjects seriously.
Sources located during this search describe him as a native Washingtonian and note that he died in 2018. Across his career, his writing joined archival depth with a strong interest in how institutions change under moral and political pressure.