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Author : J. Todd Moye
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199896554
Chronicles America's first African American military pilots, who fought againt two enemies, the Axis powers of World War II and Jim Crow racism in the United States.
Author : Jon Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136174254
On the eve of America’s entry into World War II, African American leaders pushed for inclusion in the war effort and, after the war, they mounted a concerted effort to integrate the armed services. Harry S. Truman’s decision to issue Executive Order 9981 in 1948, which resulted in the integration of the armed forces, was an important event in twentieth century American history. In Freedom to Serve, Jon E. Taylor gives an account of the presidential order as an event which forever changed the U.S. armed forces, and set a political precedent for the burgeoning civil rights movement. Including press releases, newspaper articles, presidential speeches, and biographical sidebars, Freedom to Serve introduces students to an under-examined event while illuminating the period in a new way. For additional documents, images, and resources please visit the Freedom to Serve companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/criticalmoments
Author : Brynn Baker
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491448397
"Discusses the heroic actions and experiences of the Tuskegee Airmen and the impact they made during times of war or conflict"--
Author : Brynn Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : 1496664930
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military pilots in the United States armed forces. Flying bombers and fighters, they completed over 1500 combat missions in World War II. Infographics, sidebars, and fact boxes bring the experiences of these brave military men to life.
Author : Heather E. Schwartz
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467785976
"In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1897349149
Emily and Matt fly back in time to 1858 and help runaway slaves raft across the Niagara River in New York State to freedom in Canada, via the Underground Railroad.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : CUB:U183043230911
Author : Frieda Wishinsky
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1897349157
Emily and Matt fly back in time to 1858 and help runaway slaves raft across the Niagara River in New York State to freedom in Canada, via the Underground Railroad.
Author : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626745940
The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of America's World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolfgang Samuel and the pilots he interviewed reveal the peril these men faced to achieve a daunting task, impossible without their bravery. And their sacrifices were stunning--American bomber crews suffered the highest casualties (KIA, MIA, POW, wounded) of all American armed services in World War II. The stories preserved in this book bear that grave danger out. A member of a heavy bomber crew in the 8th Air Force in the period from mid-1942 to spring 1944 was less likely to survive than a US Marine fighting on Iwo Jima or Okinawa. The stories in this unique book are about men who went face to face with their adversaries, who saw their buddies die, who crashed planes, and who became prisoners of war. Many later went on to become the backbone of the postwar Air Force, serving in Korea and Vietnam and during the Cold War. Young Ken Chilstrom led a flight of eight A-36 fighter bombers on a low-level foray in Italy. Only he and two others came home. Bob Hoover thought he could take on the entire German air force, but on his first mission he was shot down, nearly perished, and suffered the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp. Wolfgang Samuel's new book is all about men like Ken, Bob, and the many friends they lost, who saw World War II through to the end and gave freedom to so many others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Freedom (Outagamie County, Wis. : Town)
ISBN : WISC:89082482043
Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467790451
In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.
Author : Maria Höhn,Martin Klimke
Publisher : Culture, Politics, and the Col
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556041070798
Based on an award-winning international research project and photo exhibition, this poignant and beautifully illustrated book examines the experiences of African American GIs in Germany and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Thanks in large part to its military occupation of Germany after World War II, America’s unresolved civil rights agenda was exposed to worldwide scrutiny as never before. At the same time, its ambitious efforts to democratize German society after the defeat of Nazism meant that West Germany was exposed to American ideas of freedom and democracy to a much larger degree than many other countries. As African American GIs became increasingly politicized, they took on a particular significance for the Civil Rights Movement in light of Germany’s central role in the Cold War. While the effects of the Civil Rights Movement reverberated across the globe, Germany represents a special case that illuminates a remarkable period in American and world history. Digital archive including videos, photographs, and oral history interviews available at www.breathoffreedom.org
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Computer industry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015309961
Author : Paul Dumouchel,Reiko Gotoh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782386940
Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89119490159