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Title Taps for a Jim Crow army : letters from black soldiers in World War II / Phillip McGuire, editor ; with forewords by Benjamin Quarles and Bernard Nalty
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 276 pages)
Contents Chapter 1: Uncle Sam's Boys -- Chapter 2: The dilemma of the black officer -- Chapter 3: Laborers in uniform -- Chapter 4: Illusions of democracy -- Chapter 5: Biased white officers -- Chapter 6: Appeals to the White House -- Chapter 7: Cruel and usual punishment -- Chapter 8: Northern racism -- Chapter 9: The dreaded South -- Chapter 10: Working with pain -- Chapter 11: Jim Crow goes abroad
Summary WORLD WAR, 1939-1945--PARTICIPATION, AFRICAN AMERICAN--SOURCES, RACISM--US--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY--SOURCES
Analysis African American soldiers Correspondence
Racism Sources History 20th century United States
United States / Army Sources African American troops History
World War, 1939-1945 Sources Participation, African American
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 263) and index
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Subject United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- Sources
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Sources
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
African American soldiers -- Correspondence
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Armed Forces -- African American troops
African American soldiers
Military participation -- African American
Racism
Rassendiskriminierung
Soldat
Krijgsmacht.
Rassen (mens)
United States
Schwärze
USA
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Form Electronic book
Author McGuire, Phillip, 1944-
LC no. 93001718
ISBN 9780813148991
0813148995