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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"black soldiers"”.
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Black Enlisted Men in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Race, Citizenship, and Military Occupation, 1866-1930
… sources—including court martial records and black veterans’ pension files—to examine the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the racially and ethnically diverse communities that …
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Fighting for liberty in an unequal society: African American military service in the American Revolution and the path towards citizenship
… Military service for enslaved and free black men often converted into additional liberties, including manumission and a rise in social status. Despite opportunities to gain freedom and additional rights, only a select few received such chances. Blacks that did serve were still considered …
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Soldiers and Civil Rights: The Impact of World War II on Jacksonville's African American Community, 1954-1960
… Rights Movement in Jacksonville from 1945-1960. Black World War II veterans not only faced the typical challenges of returning to civilian life, but took up the fight for equality as well. While this work acknowledges existing arguments about black veterans in the Civil Rights Movement, it …
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Vietnam Voices: a Comparative Analysis of Vietnam Veteran Narratives
… used as representative narratives for the White soldiers, Black soldiers, and women, respectively. This thesis compares the narratives on the basis of gender and racial issues. It was found that each narrative group discussed problems assimilating back into American society resulting from …
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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era
… throughout the nation’s history, these soldiers were treated as outsiders through segregated units and often relegated to non-combative duties, until the Vietnam War. This was the first major conflict in which African Americans had been deployed in large numbers in non-segregated units …
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Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
This study places the experiences of black Jamaican volunteers in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of …
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Marked by Valor: The “Lost” History of the 6th United States Colored Troops, Heavy Artillery
… argues that the camaraderie of having been a Black Union soldier solidified a sub-culture of Black veterans and their families in Natchez, Mississippi, that cohered throughout the Reconstruction period using the tools and the affiliations first gained in slavery and strengthened during the …
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'We Are Abolitionizing The West': The Union Army and the Implementation of Federal Emancipation Policy, 1861–1865
… of free labor plantations, humanitarian care for black refugees, and military emancipation. Although historians have tended to separate out the development of free labor plantations and military emancipation out into discrete streams of analysis, Union officers recognized how freeing slaves and …
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The selection and preparation of white officers for the command of black troops in the American Civil War: A study of the 41st and 100th U.S. Colored Infantry
… and the state militia system. The arrival of black troops in the Union Army led to a radical, if temporary, transformation in the Army's process for the selection and preparation of officers—but only for the white officers who served with black regiments. Overtly political or casual processes …
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Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front
… World War II provided many opportunities for Black women to serve their race, community, and nation in the Jim Crow South. The racially segregated United States Army led to the formation of Hattiesburg’s Sixth Street United Service Organization (USO) in 1942, creating a need for Black women’s …