Roscoe Robinson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10500
Subjects: University of Pittsburgh. Graduate School of Public and International Affairs; National War College (U.S.); African-American soldiers; United States; Universities and colleges; Armed Forces; Correspondence; United States. Army; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd; United States Military Academy; Foreign service; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; African Americans; University of Pittsburgh
Description: Correspondence, cables, speeches, interviews, reports, briefings, notes and notebooks, subject files, chronological files, office files, scrapbooks, newspapers and newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers pertaining to Robinson's career in the U.S. Army.  Documents his service in various positions with the 82nd Airborne Division (1959-1979), in the Vietnamese conflict (1967-1968), as commander of U.S. troops stationed in Japan (1973-1976 and 1980-1982) and in Europe (1978-1980), and as U.S. representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1982-1985).  Includes material relating to African Americans in the armed forces and to Robinson's education at the National War College, Washington, D.C., United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Correspondents include David M. Abshire, Julius W. Becton, George S. Blanchard, Emmet W. Bowers, Robert F. Cocklin, E. F. Corcoran, William H. Danforth, Jeremiah A. Denton, James M. Gavin, James F. Hamlet, Laurence J. Legere, Ernest A. Nagy, Matthew B. Ridgeway, J. R. Thurman, John W. Vessey, and Alexander M. Weyand.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Mildred E. Robinson, 2000.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

Paratrooper and first African-American four star general; Roscoe Robinson, Jr.

Collection material in English, French, German, Japanese, and Vietnamese.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003032