Brothers in valor : battlefield stories of the 89 African Americans awarded the Medal of Honor / Robert F. Jefferson Jr.

"This book provides the reader with a vivid portrait of African American soldiers who carried the flag of freedom and equality and how they reshaped the very definition of courage under fire during some of the most harrowing moments in the United States military past"--

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Main Author: Jefferson, Robert F., 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a "For honor, duty, and liberty" : the Civil War and Black valor in deed and word, 1862-1865 -- Frontier honor : Black soldier heroes and the Indian wars, 1867-1897 -- "Honor to the race" : Black loyalists and the American wars for empire in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1917 -- Carrying the banner of hope : Freddie Stowers, Henry Johnson, and the war to end all wars, 1917-1918 -- Seizing the hero's mantle : World War II and the fight for the right to fight, 1941-1945 -- Cold War civil rights warriors : the Korean War and Black portraits of bravery, 1950-1953 -- All lives matter : the Vietnam War and Black heroism under fire, 1965-1973 -- From dusk to dawn : lessons of Black heroism for twenty-first-century America pantheon of heroes. 
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