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1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: The Fight of Their Lives -- Introduction: The Segregated Military and the Journey toward Change -- 1. Crossing Jim Crow: Enlisting and Traveling to Boot Camp -- 2. Life in the Barracks: Experiences in Segregated and Integrated Training Camps and Schools -- 3. No Bigots in a Foxhole: War Brings Desegregation -- 4. African Americans and the US Army in Battle -- 5. African Americans and the Air Force, Marines, and Navy in Battle -- 6. African American Prisoners of War -- 7. From the Service to the Streets: Korean War Veterans and Social Change -- 8. Fighting the Back of the Bus: Transforming the Home Front -- Conclusion: Remembering. |
| Summary |
"Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their 2003 American Radio Works documentary, Korea: The Unfinished War, which examines the conflict as experienced by the approximately 600,000 Black men and women who served. It also includes narratives from other sources, including the Library of Congress's visionary Veterans History Project. In their own voices, soldiers and sailors and flyers tell the story of what it meant, how it felt, and what it cost them to fight for the freedom abroad that was too often denied them at home"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
David P. Cline is professor of history and director of the Center for Public and Oral History at San Diego State University, and author of From Reconciliation to Revolution: The Student Interracial Ministry, Liberal Christianity, and the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American veterans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African American veterans. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Korean War (1950-1953) |
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Personal narratives -- American.
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- African American.
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African American. |
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, African American.
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HISTORY / Military / Korean War. |
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HISTORY / African American & Black. |
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Military participation -- African American. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Personal Narrative.
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oral histories (literary works)
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Personal narratives.
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Oral histories.
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Personal narratives.
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Oral histories.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cline, David P., 1969- Twice forgotten. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] 9781469664538 (DLC) 2021030605 (OCoLC)1260694235 |
| ISBN |
9781469664545 electronic book |
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1469664542 electronic book |
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9781469664552 electronic book |
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1469664550 electronic book |
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9781469664538 hardcover |
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1469664534 hardcover |
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