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Lanier W. Phillips
Lanier W. Phillips (March 14, 1923 – March 11, 2012) was a survivor of the wreck of the USS ''Truxtun'' off the coast of Newfoundland, a retired oceanographer and a recipient of the U.S. Navy Memorial's Lone Sailor award for his distinguished post Navy civilian career. Phillips is an African American who was raised by sharecroppers in Lithonia, GA and who became the US Navy's first black sonar technician.〔(Michael E. Ruane ''Washington Post'' 16 September 2010 ) Retrieved 17 September 2010〕〔(Navy Memorial ) Retrieved 17 September 2010〕 Phillips died on March 12, 2012, at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi.
==History==
While growing up in the segregated South, Phillips witnessed the terror of the Ku Klux Klan and was taught to fear white people. “()ever look a white man in the eye. ... If you do you'll get a whipping, or maybe lynched,” his great-grandmother once warned him.〔
In order to escape the South, Philips joined the Navy in 1941. Although the Navy was still segregated and blacks were confined to duty as mess attendants, Phillips considered this the lesser of two evils.
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