Taps for a Jim Crow Army
Subtitle: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II
Edition: Lrg edition
Publisher: ABC-Clio Inc
Published: November 1982
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780874360240
Subjects: Black studies; Land forces & warfare; Population & demography; Social history; Participation, African America; Blacks In The U.S.; Military Personnel; World War, 1939-1945; Large Print; USA; Participation, African American; Armed Forces; African American soldiers; Correspondence; Personal narratives, American; United States
First sentence: Under the Selective Service Act of 1940, Uncle Sam's black boys registered for the armed forces in record numbers.