Harlem at War: The Black Experience in World War II

by Nat Brandt

Book Overview

By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I--serving chiefly in labor battalions.

Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but not extinguished." Using eyewitness accounts, he describes the rage Harlem residents felt, the discrimination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081560324X
• ISBN13: 9780815603245
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"