Jeremy P Maxwell: 2 books
Brotherhood in Combat
How African Americans Found Equality in Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass long advocated military service as an avenue to equal citizenship for black Americans. Yet segregation in the U.S. armed forces did not officially end until President Harry Truman issued an executive order in 1948. What followed, at home and in the...
by Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Robert F. Jefferson Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was...