The Negro In The Regular Army

Author : Oswald Garrison Villard
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329760239
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro in the Regular Army written by Oswald Garrison Villard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment stormed Fort Wagner July 18, 1863, only to be driven back with the loss of its colonel, Robert Gould Shaw, and many of its rank and file, it established for all time the fact that the colored soldier would fight and fight well.

Author : Ulysses Lee
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781516859290
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Employment of Negro Troops written by Ulysses Lee and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that the story of Negro participation in military service during World War II was of national interest as well as of great value for future military planning, the Assistant Secretary of War in February 1944 recommended preparation of a book on this subject. The opportunity to undertake it came two years later with the assignment to the Army's Historical Division of the author, then a captain and a man highly qualified by training and experience to write such a work. After careful examination of the sources and reflection Captain Lee concluded that it would be impracticable to write a comprehensive and balanced history about Negro soldiers in a single volume. His plan, formally approved in August 1946, was to focus his own work on the development of Army policies in the use of Negroes in military service and on the problems associated with the execution of these policies at home and abroad, leaving to the authors of other volumes in the Army's World War II series, then taking shape, the responsibility for covering activities of Negroes in particular topical areas. This definition of the author's objective is needed in order to understand why he has described his work "in no sense a history of Negro troops in World War II." Writing some years ago, he explained: "The purpose of the present volume is to bring together the significant experience of the Army in dealing with an important national question: the full use of the human resources represented by that 10 percent of national population that is Negro. It does not attempt to follow, in narrative form, the participation of Negro troops in the many branches, commands, and units of the Army. . . . A fully descriptive title for the present volume, in the nineteenth century manner, would read: 'The U.S. Army and Its Use of Negro Troops in World War II: Problems in the Development and Application of Policy with Some Attention to the Results, Public and Military.'" Thus, in accordance with his objective, the author gives considerably more attention to the employment of Negroes as combat soldiers than to their use as service troops overseas. Even though a large majority of the Negroes sent overseas saw duty in service rather than in combat units, their employment in service forces did not present the same number or degree of problems.

Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The U.S. Army and the Negro written by US Army Military History Research Collection and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marvin Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Soldier and the United States Army, 1891-1917 written by Marvin Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morris J. MacGregor
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 written by Morris J. MacGregor and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the quarter century that followed American entry into World War II, the nation's armed forces moved from the reluctant inclusion of a few segregated Negroes to their routine acceptance in a racially integrated military establishment. Nor was this change confined to military installations. By the time it was over, the armed forces had redefined their traditional obligation for the welfare of their members to include a promise of equal treatment for black servicemen wherever they might be. In the name of equality of treatment and opportunity, the Department of Defense began to challenge racial injustices deeply rooted in American society. For all its sweeping implications, equality in the armed forces obviously had its pragmatic aspects. In one sense it was a practical answer to pressing political problems that had plagued several national administrations. In another, it was the services' expression of those liberalizing tendencies that were permeating American society during the era of civil rights activism. But to a considerable extent the policy of racial equality that evolved in this quarter century was also a response to the need for military efficiency. So easy did it become to demonstrate the connection between inefficiency and discrimination that, even when other reasons existed, military efficiency was the one most often evoked by defense officials to justify a change in racial policy."_x000D_ Morris J. MacGregor, Jr., received the A.B. and M.A. degrees in history from the Catholic University of America. He continued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Paris on a Fulbright grant. Before joining the staff of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in 1968 he served for ten years in the Historical Division of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625583451
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Life in a Black Regiment written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of New England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and not only corresponded with John Brown before the ill-fated raid on Harper's Ferry, but was part of a group that supplied material aid to Brown. When the Civil War broke out, his reputation, enhanced by his impassioned articles about Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner in the Atlantic, made him the perfect candidate to head the first regiment of emancipated slaves, and in 1862, he was commissioned as a colonel for the troops training in the Sea Islands off the coast of the Carolinas. Army Life in a Black Regiment is Higginson's stirring account of his wartime experiences. Shaped by American Romanticism and imbued with Higginson's interest in both man and nature, the narrative ranges from detailed reports on daily life to a vivid description of the author's near escape from cannon fire to sketches that conjure up the beauty and mystery of the Sea Islands.

Author : Edward Austin Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War written by Edward Austin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Dirk Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negro Regulars written by Thomas Dirk Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William T. Bowers
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788139908
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Soldier, White Army written by William T. Bowers and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the 24th Infantry regiment in Korea is a difficult one, both for the veterans of the unit & for the Army. This book tells both what happened to the 24th Infantry, & why it happened. The Army must be aware of the corrosive effects of segregation & the racial prejudices that accompanied it. The consequences of the system crippled the trust & mutual confidence so necessary among the soldiers & leaders of combat units & weakened the bonds that held the 24th together, producing profound effects on the battlefield. Tables, maps & illustrations.

Author : Theophilus Gould Steward
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colored Regulars in the United States Army written by Theophilus Gould Steward and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1904 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: