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Brothers in valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor Cover Image Book Book

Brothers in valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor

Jefferson, Robert F. 1963- (author.).

Summary: "This book provides the reader with a vivid portrait of African American soldiers who carried the flag of freedom and equality and how they reshaped the very definition of courage under fire during some of the most harrowing moments in the United States military past"--

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  • ISBN: 1493031740
  • ISBN: 9781493031740
  • Physical Description: xv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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  • Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : LP/[Lyons Press], an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: "For honor, duty, and liberty" : the Civil War and Black valor in deed and word, 1862-1865 -- Frontier honor : Black soldier heroes and the Indian wars, 1867-1897 -- "Honor to the race" : Black loyalists and the American wars for empire in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1917 -- Carrying the banner of hope : Freddie Stowers, Henry Johnson, and the war to end all wars, 1917-1918 -- Seizing the hero's mantle : World War II and the fight for the right to fight, 1941-1945 -- Cold War civil rights warriors : the Korean War and Black portraits of bravery, 1950-1953 -- All lives matter : the Vietnam War and Black heroism under fire, 1965-1973 -- From dusk to dawn : lessons of Black heroism for twenty-first-century America pantheon of heroes.

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Subject: African American soldiers Biography
United States Armed Forces African Americans Biography
Medal of Honor Biography

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

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