Brothers in valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor / Robert F. Jefferson Jr.

By:

Jefferson, Robert F, 1963- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781493031757

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

E185 .B768 2019

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Contents:

Frontier honor : 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 : Heroes from the war to end all wars, 1917-1918 -- Seizing the hero's mantle : heroes in World War II, 1941-1945 -- Cold War civil rights warriors : the Korean War and Black portraits of bravery, 1950-1953 -- Soldiers in the Second Indochina War: the Vietnam War and Black heroism under fire, 1965-1973 -- Keeping the faith : lessons of Black heroism for twenty-first-century America -- Pantheon of heroes.

Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	E185.63 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1045645743

"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"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

"For honor, duty, and liberty" : heroes of the Civil War, 1862-1865 -- Frontier honor : 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 : Heroes from the war to end all wars, 1917-1918 -- Seizing the hero's mantle : heroes in World War II, 1941-1945 -- Cold War civil rights warriors : the Korean War and Black portraits of bravery, 1950-1953 -- Soldiers in the Second Indochina War: the Vietnam War and Black heroism under fire, 1965-1973 -- Keeping the faith : lessons of Black heroism for twenty-first-century America -- Pantheon of heroes.

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