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Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A professor at Princeton University makes the case that multiple forces have conspired to deepen the impoverishment of black communities, crystallizing the untenable position of Black America and offering thoughts on a better way forward.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the role of African-Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America's first black paratroopers, who fought against attacks perpetrated on the American West by the Japanese during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored,...
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