Title: Green Berets in the Vanguard
Description: "The author of a memoir about growing up black in Mississippi, Chalmers Archer now turns his attention to his experiences as one of the first members of the U.S. Army's Special Forces in the years between 1953 and 1965. His perspective is unique, not only as one of the first to wear the Green Beret but as a black man in the early days of armed forces integration."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: United States, United States. Army. Special Forces, African-American soldiers, Biography, African American soldiers