In this moving and revealing account, Michael Lee Lanning brings to life the battles in which African Americans fought so courageously to become full citizens b

Surveys the history of blacks in the armed forces from the 1600s to the 1980s.

The century-long struggle to achieve equality for America's black soldiers and sailors, in a stirring narrative history by the author of Root and Branch

Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their will

First time in paperback: An all-encompassing chronicle of African Americans' in the armed forces of the United States