A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States

A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States
Author: Herbert Aptheker
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1951
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780806514215

This work " ... rescues from oblivion and loss, the very words and thoughts of scores of American Negroes who lived slavery, serfdom and quasi-freedom in the United States of America from the seventeenth to the twentieth century."--Preface.

Black Yanks in the Pacific

Black Yanks in the Pacific
Author: Michael Cullen Green
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010
Genre: African American soldiers
ISBN: 9780801448966

Cover -- BLACK YANKS IN THE PACIFIC -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyday Racial Politics in a Military Empire -- Chapter 1: Reconversion Blues and the Appeal of (Re)Enlistment -- Chapter 2: The American Dream in a Prostrate Japan -- Chapter 3: The Public Politics of Intimate Affairs -- Chapter 4: A Brown Baby Crisis -- Chapter 5: The Race of Combat in Korea -- Epilogue: Military Desegregation in a Militarized World -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Twice Forgotten

Twice Forgotten
Author: David P. Cline
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-12-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469664542

Journalists began to call the Korean War "the Forgotten War" even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military&8239;desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their American Radio Works documentary, Korea: The Unfinished War, which examines the conflict as experienced by the approximately 600,000 Black men and women who served. It also includes narratives from other sources, including the Library of Congress's visionary Veterans History Project. In their own voices, soldiers and sailors and flyers tell the story of what it meant, how it felt, and what it cost them to fight for the freedom abroad that was too often denied them at home.