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Soldiers of freedom : an illustrated history of African Americans in the Armed Forces / Kai Wright.
Van Pelt Library UB418.A47 W75 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Kai.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armed Forces.
- African Americans.
- History.
- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans--History.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Black Dog & Leventhal, [2002]
- Summary:
- Spanning from the American Revolution to the war in Afghanistan, this long-overdue, comprehensive history covers the full scope of African AmericansU involvement in the armed forces during war and peacetime. Accompanying the informative text are 300 photographs and illustrations.
- Contents:
- Choosing sides: the Revolutionary War era
- Wars of a young nation: slave uprisings and the War of 1812
- "If we make him a soldier, we concede the whole question": the Civil War
- Buffalo Soldiers: westward expansion and empire building
- Soldiers in search of an army: the World War I era
- "Eleanor's niggers": World War II
- "The highest standards of democracy": Korea and the Cold War
- "I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong": Vietnam and its aftermath
- A new beginning: the modern military.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1579122531 :
- OCLC:
- 49936001
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