" Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. The soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army. Most black troops were denied entry into army specialist schools; black officers were not allowed to command white officers; black soldiers were served poorer food and were forced to ride Jim Crow military buses into town and to sit in Jim Crow base movie theaters. In the South, German POWs could use the same latrines as white American soldiers, but blacks could not. The original foreword by Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of history at Morgan State University, and a new foreword by Bernard C. Nalty, the chief historian in the Office of Air Force History, offer rich insights into the world of these soldiers. Phillip McGuire is professor of history at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
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Under the Selective Service Act of 1940, Uncle Sam's black boys registered for the armed forces in record numbers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
private interview with author, black civilian aides, white military police, black manpower, jim crow army, camp stockade, black personnel, blue discharges, negro officers, colored soldiers, negro troops, colored officers, white civilians, negro soldier, aviation squadrons, base theater, black soldiers, jim crowed, black troops, black press, black officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Secretary of War Subject File, Pittsburgh Courier, New York, United States, Jim Crow Army, World War, Secretary Stimson, United Nations, Fort Leonard Wood, Judge William, Jackson Air Base, Judge Hastie, Keesler Field, President Roosevelt, South Carolina, Uncle Sam, National Archives Record Group, Stimson Diary, Afro-American Newspapers, North Carolina, Second Cavalry, Army Air Corps, Camp Shelby, Davis-Monthan Field, Eleanor Roosevelt New!
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private interview with author, black civilian aides, white military police, black manpower, jim crow army, camp stockade, black personnel, blue discharges, negro officers, colored soldiers, negro troops, colored officers, white civilians, negro soldier, aviation squadrons, base theater, black soldiers, jim crowed, black troops, black press, black officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Secretary of War Subject File, Pittsburgh Courier, New York, United States, Jim Crow Army, World War, Secretary Stimson, United Nations, Fort Leonard Wood, Judge William, Jackson Air Base, Judge Hastie, Keesler Field, President Roosevelt, South Carolina, Uncle Sam, National Archives Record Group, Stimson Diary, Afro-American Newspapers, North Carolina, Second Cavalry, Army Air Corps, Camp Shelby, Davis-Monthan Field, Eleanor Roosevelt New!
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- Employment of Negro Troops, The by Ulysses Lee on 4 pages
- Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military by Bernard C. Nalty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Negro Poets And Their Poems by Robert T. Kerlin on page 90, and page 101
- The Afro-American and the Second World War by Neil A. Wynn in Front Matter, and page 234
- Pearl Harbor! (World War II 50th Anniversary Series) by Wallace B. Black in Front Matter, and page 185
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- The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Foxholes and Color Lines: Desegregating the U.S. Armed Forces (Rand Book) by Sherie Mershon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii by Beth L. Bailey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Practical Virtues: Everyday Values and Devotions for African American Families by Floyd H. Flake in Back Matter
- America's History by James A. Henretta on page 863
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