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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military via the story of America's first regiment of Black paratroopers, the Triple Nickles, and their fight against the Japanese in a little-known World War II attack on the American West.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fact-based story about the all-black U.S. Cavalry Troop H, which protected the Western territories in post-Civil War times. The story focuses on the troops' attempts to capture an Apache warrior, Vittorio, who slaughters the settlers in New Mexico. The film examines the racial tensions that existed between the black soldiers and some of the white soldiers, and the truths about the Indian invaders.
3) Civil War
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Examines the experiences, events, and accomplishments of African Americans during the Civil War.
9) The 24th
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of the all black Twenty-fourth United States Infantry Regiment.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Recounts the history of the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments, comprised of African American soldiers recruited to open the West to settlers and whose deeds included escorting wagon trains, carrying mail, and fighting battles against Native Americans.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regiment--the Harlem Hellfighters. The Harlem Hellfighters is a fictionalized account of the 369th Infantry Regiment--the first African American regiment mustered to fight in World War I. From the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the trenches in France, bestselling author Max Brooks tells...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade, launched one of the greatest experiments in American history....