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Candlewick Press
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English
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They became America's first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
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Drawn to Reality
World War I Collection Spotlight - African-American Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Graphic Novels
World War I Collection Spotlight - African-American Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Graphic Novels
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"This is a graphic novel about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One"--
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating and enlightening work, military historian Michael Lee Lanning reveals the little-known, critical, and heroic role African Americans played in the American Revolution, serving in integrated units#x97;-a situation that wouldn#x92;t exist again until the Korean War, more than 150 years later."--Back cover.
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"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing...
10) The African American soldier: a two-hundred-year history of African Americans in the U.S. military
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"From Bunker Hill to San Juan Heights, from France's muddy trenches to the Persian Gulf's scorched sands, African Americans have fought fiercely and bravely. They have battled to overthrow British rule, to preserve the union, to safeguard their allies, and to protect democracy. Many have fought for freedom they would never see themselves, risking their lives for the country and for the right to become full citizens."--
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the story of the African American cavalrymen of the 5th Massachusetts during the Civil War-a story of resilience in the face of adversity, one that will resonate not just during the present moment of reckoning with race in the United States but in the annals of American history for all time"--
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In addition to tracking the evolution of the black Confederate myth, Levin explores the roles that African Americans performed in the army with a particular focus on the relationship between officers and their personal body servants or camp slaves. In contrast to claims that these men served as soldiers in racially integrated regiments, Levin demonstrates that regardless of the dangers faced in camp, on the march and on the battlefield their legal...
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English
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"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across...
16) Soldiering for freedom: how the Union army recruited, trained, and deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
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Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union army. These U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), as the War Department designated most black units, materially helped to win the Civil War-performing a variety...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a master spy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves...
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