African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces - February 2007

• Books
• Multimedia Resources
• Electronic Resources

BOOKS

D 769.306.761^st .A24 2004
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem and Anthony Walton. Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761^st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.

U 53 .A73 A3 2001
Archer, Chalmers. Green Berets in the Vanguard: Inside Special Forces, 1953-1963. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

UB 418 .A47 A84 1998
Astor, Gerald. The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1998.

UB 418 .A47 B4
Binkin, Martin and Mark J. Eitelberg. Blacks and the Military. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1982.

E 185.63 .B93 2001
Buckley, Gail Lumet. American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York: Random House, 2001.

E 540 .N3 C58 2006
Claxton, Melvin and Mark Puls. Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism, and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006.

UG 626.2 .D37 A3
Davis, Benjamin, O., Jr. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: An Autobiography. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

UB 418 .A47 D38
Davis, Lenwood G. and George Hill. Blacks in the American Armed Forces, 1776-1983: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.

E 185.63 .E34 2001
Edgerton, Robert B. Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001.

U 53 .D38 F6
Fletcher, Marvin. America’s First Black General, Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. 1880-1970. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1989.

E 185.63 .F58
Fletcher, Marvin. The Black Soldier and Officer in the United States Army, 1891-1917. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974.

E 185.63 .F66
Fowler, Arlen L. The Black Infantry in the West, 1869-1891. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1971.

E 540 .N3 G53 1990
Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press, 1990.

VB 324 .A47 G65 1993
The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1993.

E 185.63 .U86 1998
Gropman, Alan L. The Air Force Integrates, 1945-1964. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.

REF UB 433 .H35 2002
Hanna, Charles W. African American Recipients of the Medal of Honor: A Biographical Dictionary, Civil War Through Vietnam War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2002.

D 769.31 92^nd .H37
Hargrove, Hondon B. Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1985.

E 185.925 .K394 1999
Kenner, Charles L. Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898: Black and White Together. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

UB 418 .A47 L36 1997
Lanning, Michael Lee. The African-American Soldier: From Crispus Attucks to Colin Powell. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1997.

E 269 .N3 L36 2005
----------. African Americans in the Revolutionary War. New York: Kensington Pub. Corp., 2000.

UB 418 .A47 M3
MacGregor, Morris J., Jr. Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965. Washington: U.S. Army. Center of Military History, 1981.

UB 418 .A47 M47 1998
Mershon, Sherie and Steven Schlossman. Foxholes & Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

REF E 185.63 .M64 1994
Moebs, Thomas Truxtun. Black Soldiers – Black Sailors – Black Ink: Research Guide on African-Americans in U.S. Military History, 1526-1900. Chesapeake Bay, VA: Moebs Pub. Co., 1994.

UB 418 .A47 N36
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.

UB 418 .A47 B5
---------- and Morris J. MacGregor. Blacks in the Military: Essential Documents. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1981

UG 626.2 .J36 P5
Phelps, J. Alfred. Chappie: America’s First Black Four-Star General. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1991.

D 769.306 761^st .P68 1992
Potter, Lou, et al. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

E 840.5 .P68 A3 1995
Powell, Colin. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 1995.

E 185.925 .S43 1997
Schubert, Frank N. Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1997.

REF U 52 .05 2004
Schubert, Irene and Frank N. Schubert. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier II: New and Revised Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.

E 185.97 .Y63 S53 2006
Shellum, Brian G. Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

REF U 52 .S88 2004 2v.
Sutherland, Jonathan D. African Americans at War: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO, 2004.

DS 559.5 .B5
Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War. New York: Random House, 1984.

E 185.97 .W694 T83 2002
Tucker, Phillip Thomas. Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2002.

E 540 .N3 W5
Williams, George Washington. A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. New York: Bergman, 1968.

UB 418 .A47 W75 2002
Wright, Kai. Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2002.

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MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

AVFL 142 (Videorecording)
Camp, John. Blacks in the Military. Atlanta: Turner Multimedia, 1991.

AVFL 326 (Videorecording)
Dow, Harold, et al. Black Aviators: Flying Free. New York: A&E Television Networks, 2001.

AVFL 511 (Videorecording)
Glory. Burbank, CA: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1990.

DVD G6
Glory. Culver City, CA: TriStar, 2000.

Audio CD A738
Powell, Colin. My American Journey. New York: Random House Audio, 1995.

Audio P69
----------. My American Journey. New York: Random House Audiobooks, 1995.

AVFL 322 (Videorecording)
The Tuskegee Airmen. New York: HBO Pictures, 1995.

DVD T88
The Tuskegee Airmen. Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, 2004.

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Black History Month—Military.Com
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1?file=BH_Index

The Buffalo Soldier: International Museum of the Horse
http://www.imh.org/museum/exhibit.php?exhibition=Buffalo

History of Black Military Service
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/welcome.html

National African American History Month, 2007
A Proclamation by the President of the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/20070126-4.html

National Archives—Black History Month
http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/black-history.html

Text of President Truman’s Executive Order: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
http://trumanlibrary.org/9981.htm

U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/007862.html

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