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The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of African-American soldiers in the US military up to that point. Watson, aids injured dog.īlack Americans were more likely to be drafted than White Americans. By 1953, the final black only unit was abolished. Truman abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin. In so doing it recovers the long-overlooked perspectives and forgotten voices of one of the defining chapters of American history.See also: Military history of African Americans and Executive Order 9981Īfrican Americans have always been involved in United States military service since its inception despite official policies of racial segregation and discrimination. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this pathbreaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America’s most destructive conflict.Ī People’s History of the Civil War is “readable social history” which “sheds fascinating light” ( Publishers Weekly) on this crucial period. Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War though the eyes of ordinary people-foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Widely praised upon its initial release, it was described as “meticulously researched and persuasively argued” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Bottom-up history at its very best, A People’s History of the Civil War “does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general” ( Library Journal).
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