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Chargement... Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History (édition 2022)par David P. Cline (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I found this to be a top-notch examination of the African American experience in Korea, and it works really well as an explanation of how that war, and Truman's desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces, contributed to the battle for desegregation in American civilian life. I'm not going to try an reiterated point after point from this book, better that you read it yourself, but I did find it interesting that the men of the 24th Infantry Regiment saw the disbanding of their unit as something of a slight, and that they were being scapegoated for the broader failures of U.S. 8th Army in Korean in 1950. It should be noted that the contemporary U.S. Army has active units upholding the honors of all four of the classic "Buffalo Solider" regiments. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their 2003 American Radio Works documentary, Korea: The Unfinished War, which examines the conflict as experienced by the approximately 600,000 Black men and women who served. It also includes narratives from other sources, including the Library of Congress's visionary Veterans History Project. In their own voices, soldiers and sailors and flyers tell the story of what it meant, how it felt, and what it cost them to fight for the freedom abroad that was too often denied them at home"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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