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1) The color of blood: celebrating the contributions of African Americans to the United States Military
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The Color of Blood tells the story of African-Americans and their fight for equal rights in the United States military. The 26-minute documentary features historians, professors and veterans who experienced this controversial time firsthand.
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Gain an unprecedented look at the experiences and accomplishments of African Americans in the military, and learn why such a group of heroic men and women would fight for the freedom of others that they themselves weren't able to enjoy. Hosted by Halle Berry with an introduction by Colin Powell, and features the voices of Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, John Travolta, and many more.
6) Military
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Details the history of African Americans in the military from the American Revolution the present.
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"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. 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...
9) The color of blood: celebrating the contributions of African-Americans to the United States military
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"From the Revolutionary War to the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first black Commander-in-Chief, this documentary portrays the defining moments in the fight for racial equality in the United States Armed Forces"--Container.
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Traces the legal, political, and moral campaign for equality that led to Harry Truman's 1948 desegregation of the U.S. military, documenting the contributions of black troops since the Revolutionary War and their efforts to counter racism on the fields and on military bases.
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This book seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in detail by mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau. These files contain first-hand perspective of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and freedom. It also explores the words of former slaves topically from recollections of slavery to life after emancipation.
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"In the late 1950s, as the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. was at last gaining ground, 16 soldiers sat confined in basement cells on death row in the army's Fort Leavenworth maximum security prison in Kansas. Exactly eight were white and eight were black. All of the white soldiers were commuted. Not only were their lives spared, but they all were eventually released and returned to their families. They benefited from powerful Washington powerbrokers,...