Blurring the Line between Civilian and Military: The Changing Nature of the Town-Base Relationship in Jacksonville, North Carolina
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Johnson, Crystal M.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense
- Abstract
- This thesis reflects the personal and intellectual interests that I bring to investigating how and why military towns form as they do. This thesis examines the extent to which America’s aggressive military preparedness affected local communities in which military installations were established and the nature of the relationships that developed between civilians and the military. How did locals accommodate the changes brought by the base? Did the locals resent the base and the service members or did they embrace the economic prosperity they brought to the area? Did a prolonged military presence improve social conditions such as race relations in these communities or did it hurt them? These are questions that I have explored by broadly researching military base construction and the development of military communities in the United States during the twentieth century. Drawing from the Jacksonville Daily News and the Camp Lejeune Globe, census data, oral histories, and government reports, this thesis analyzes the history of the interaction between Camp Lejeune and Jacksonville through the use of three case studies. Through these case studies, I examine specific events that have largely shaped the relationship and which exemplify the changing attitudes and mentalities documented in the area.
- Date of publication
- spring 2016
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Turk, Katherine
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 110
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