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16 of the Best Books and Articles on: African Americans in the Military

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1.

All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way » Read Now
by Charles C. Moskos, John Sibley Butler. 198 pgs.

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Blacks in the Military, in The National Interest » Read Now
by Alan L. Gropman. 5 pgs.

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...blacks see in the military services opportunities...unavailable to them in civilian America. African Americans see the armed...proportion to the African-American...
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The 'New' Navy: Trying to Put the Past Behind, in Ebony » Read Now
by Hans J. Massaquoi. 4 pgs.

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...that he does not want to compete with the other military service branches, Capt. Bailey doesnt mind pointing...out that there are several areas where he feels the Navy has...
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African American Soldiers in the National Guard: Recruitment and Deployment during Peacetime and War » Read Now
by Charles Johnson. 218 pgs.

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This detailed history of the many achievements of African-American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries fills an important gap in our knowledge about the involvement of African American militias in wartime and peacetime service. Using extensive primary and secondary...
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This detailed history of the many achievements of African-American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries fills an important gap in our knowledge about the involvement of African American militias in wartime and peacetime service. Using extensive primary and secondary sources, this account describes the establishment of African American militia groups in 1877, their role in the Spanish American War and in quelling civil disturbances and disasters up to 1914, their service in World Wars I and II and in the years between the wars, and their reorganization and integration into the National Guard in 1949 and 1950.
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The Untold Story of Black Women in the Gulf War, in Ebony » Read Now
by Laura B. Randolph. 7 pgs.

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...States led 25 countries in the largest military alliance since the Korean...about the role of women in the military. By the formal cease...Black women soldiers made in the...
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The Colored Cadet at West Point » Read Now
by Quintard Taylor, Henry Ossian Flipper. 330 pgs.

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Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the 19th-century West's most remarkable individuals and the first African American graduate of West Point. Although Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant, he was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. This is Flipper's own account of his...
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Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the 19th-century West's most remarkable individuals and the first African American graduate of West Point. Although Flipper's record of accomplishment was significant, he was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. This is Flipper's own account of his career, along with a biographical essay by Quintard Taylor Jr.
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Black, and Navy Too: How Vietnam Era African-American Sailors Asserted Manhood through Black Power Militancy, in The Journal of Men's Studies » Read Now
by Herman Iii Graham. 16 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...requiring military posts to...representation in the Navy to match...In 1971, African Americans were seriously...officers in dining rooms, African Americans...
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African Americans and World II: A Pictorial Essay, in Negro History Bulletin » Read Now
by Cynthia Neverdon-Morton. 4 pgs.

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African-American Soldiers and Filipinos: Racial Imperialism, Jim Crow and Social Relations, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Scot Ngozi-Brown. 12 pgs.

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...ideology in which white Americans characterized...they did African-Americans...subhuman. When the United States military occupied...the Spanish in Cuba was...assumptions...
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Black, Blue and Gray: The Other Civil War; African-American Soldiers, Sailors and Spies Were the Unsung Heroes, in Ebony » Read Now
by Lerone Bennett Jr. 6 pgs.

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...was the contribution of Black Americans--slaves and freedmen--who provided the margin of difference that turned...against the Confederate forces in 1864 and 1865. There...
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In the Service of the United States: Comparative Mortality among African-American and White Troops in the Union Army, in The Journal of Negro History » Read Now
by Andrew K. Black. 10 pgs.

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Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers, 1898-1902 » Read Now
by Willard B. Gatewood. 332 pgs.

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...correspondence according to military unit rather than chronologically throughout the chapter. Many individuals...valuable assistance in the preparation of this...stripped...
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"Your Old Father Abe Lincoln Is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot of 1866, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Kevin R. Hardwick. 20 pgs.

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...and whites. The experience of military life in the victorious Union army empowered...responsibility in active leadership roles in the military and figured prominently in...
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Crimes and Punishment: Blacks in the Army's Criminal Justice System, in Military Psychology » Read Now
by Naomi Verdugo. 19 pgs.

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Faces in the Corps, in Ebony » Read Now
by Ebony. 2 pgs.

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...A. Jackson, the first African-American woman colonel in the Marine Corps, currently...duties. He is the senior African-American enlisted Marine, and he advises the deputy...
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Buffalo Soldier Regiment: History of the Twenty-Fifth United States Infantry, 1869-1926 » Read Now
by John H. Nankivell. 248 pgs.

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