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This fascinating history shows how AfricanAmerican military men and women seized their dignity through barracks culture and community politics during and after World War II.

Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores the curious contradiction of wareffort idealism and entrenched discrimination through the experiences of the 93rd Infantry Division. Led by white officers and presumably unable to fight—and with t...

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Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America

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