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Author
Publisher
MBI Pub. and Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Discusses the contributions of black soldiers in the United States, from the American Revolution to the battlefields of today, presenting individual and group stories, details of battles, and descriptions of army life.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on newly uncovered military records and original interviews with surviving members of the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion{u2014}a unit of African-American soldiers that has been overlooked by history{u2014}and their families, the author tells the story of these heroic men charged with manning armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft on D-Day.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a native of North Carolina who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle. Perry was shipped in a segregated labor battalion to South Asia in 1943, one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, from the mountains of northeast India across the tiger-infested vales of Burma. Perry could not endure the jungle's brutality, nor the racism of his white officers. Finally, in emotional collapse,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a deeply moving picture book memoir about serving in the segregated army during World War II, and how love and the pursuit of art sustained him. In May of 1942, at the age of eighteen, Ashley Bryan was drafted to fight in World War II. For the next three years, he would face the horrors of war as a black soldier in a segregated army. He endured the terrible lies white officers told about the...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers.. Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed-marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores...
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