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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Description
"This is a graphic novel about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One"--
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A detailed and gripping account of the 1917 Camp Logan riots, which left eleven civilians, five policemen, and four soldiers dead and created conditions that sparked a nationwide surge of wartime racial activism. The resulting trial was considered the trial of the century at the time, and resulted in the hanging of thirteen black soldiers"--
Author
Publisher
[BookBaby]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The book is focused on two perspectives. The first part of the book is biography of my [author's] great grandfather's service in the Buffalo Soldier's from 1865-1893 and their patriotism and his life after retirement. The second part delves deep into the heart of American history and how, in my opinion, the Buffalo Soldiers were used as pawns by the U.S. government operating under guise of the "Manifest Destiny.""--
"Trooper Pride was part of a...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history....
10) The 24th
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the city, inciting one of the deadliest riots in history.
11) Soldiering for freedom: how the Union army recruited, trained, and deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Author
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
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"By the Tet Offensive in early 1968, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August of that year, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, and beat a white inmate to death with a shovel. The days of 'same mud, same blood' were over, and by...
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