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“What They Fought For”:
African Americans
at War for America
Dr. Robert F. Pace
Sergeant-Major Lewis Douglass, Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry,
1863, photograph, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
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I. Introduction
II. War of 1812
III. Civil War
IV. The Frontier Wars
V. Spanish-American War
VI. World War I
VII. World War II
VIII. Military Integration
IX. Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf
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Pictures of African Americans at War
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Member if the 54th Massacusetts
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Black Troops Mobilizing for Spanish American War
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Cpl. Harold Roberts Winner of the French Croix de Guerre in WWI
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Dorie Miller Hero at Pearl Harbor
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Benjamin O. Davis, Tuskegee Airmen
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Integrated Troops in Korea
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Vietnam War
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Maj. Gen. Colin Powell in the Gulf War
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Brief Bibliography of African Americans at War
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| Barbeau, Arthur E. and Henri Florette.
The Unknown Soldiers; Black American Troops in World War I. Philadelphia,
Temple University Press, [1974]. |
| Biggs, Bradley. The Triple Nickels: America's
First All-Black Paratroop Unit. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1986. |
| The Black Military Experience, edited
by Ira Berlin and Joseph P. Reidy. New York , Cambridge University
Press, 1982. |
| Bowers, William T. and others. Black Soldier,
White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea. Washington, Center
of Military History, U. S. Army, 1996. |
| Brandt, Nat. Harlem at War: the Black
Experience in WW II. Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, 1996. |
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Carroll, John M. The Black Military Experience in
the American West. New York, Liveright, [1973].
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| Cashin, Herschel and others. Under Fire
with the Tenth U. S. Cavalry.. Niwot, CO, University Press of Colorado,
1993. |
| Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm;
Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. New York, Longmans, Green,
1956. |
| Daniels, Nathan W. Thank God My Regiment
an African One : The Civil War Diary of Colonel Nathan W. Daniels,
edited by C.P. Weaver. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press,
1998. |
| Emilio, Luis F. A Brave Black Regiment:
History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer
Infantry, 1863-1865.. Salem, N. H., Ayer Company, 1990. |
| Fowler, Arlen L. The Black Infantry in
the West, 1869-1891. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. |
| Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle:
The Civil War Alliance--Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York,
Free Press, 1990. |
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Hansen, Joyce. Between Two Fires : Black Soldiers
in the Civil War. New York, F. Watts, 1993.
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| Hollandsworth, James G. The Louisiana
Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1995. |
| The Invisible Soldier: The Experience
of the Black Soldier, World War II, compiled and edited by Mary
Penick Motley. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1975. |
| McGuire, Phillip. He, Too, Spoke for Democracy:
Judge Hastie, World War II, and the Black Soldier. New York, Greenwood
Press, 1988. |
| Putney, Martha S. When the Nation Was
in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Metuchen,
NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1992. |
| Schubert, Frank N. Black Valor: Buffalo
Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly
Resources, Inc., 1997. |
| Scott, Edward Van Zile. The Unwept: Black
American Soldiers and the Spanish-American War.. Montgomery, AL,
Black Belt Press, 1996. |
| Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History
of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. New York, Random House, 1984. |
| Voelz, Peter Michael. Slave and Soldier:
The Military Impact of Blacks in the Colonial Americas. New York,
Garland, 1993. |
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Westheider, James E. Fighting on Two Fronts : African
Americans and the Vietnam War. New York, New York University Press,
1997.
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Web Sites:
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African Americans in Military History
Bibliography and Resources
http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/afhist/aftoc.htm |
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African American Military History
http://www.fatherryan.org/blackmilitary/
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African American Military History: From
the Revolutionary War to Vietnan
http://www.bjmjr.com/aamh.htm |
African
American Warriors
http://www.abest.com/~cklose/aawar.htm |
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