WAR! What Is It Good For? : Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military FROM WORLD WAR II TO IRAQ /

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Main Author: Phillips, Kimberley L. (Kimberley Louise), 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Where are the Negro soldiers? The Double V Campaign and the segregated military
  • Jim Crow shock and the second front, 1945-1950
  • Glory on the battlefield: the Korean war, Cold War civil rights, and the paradox of Black military service
  • Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow? Black freedom struggles, the Korean War, and the Cold War military
  • Machine gun blues: Black America and the Vietnam War
  • Sing no more of war: Black freedom struggles and antiwar activism, 1960-1973
  • An epilogue about the United States and wars in medias res. Live from the front lines: military policy and soldiers' rap from iraq.