TY - BOOK AU - Wright Kai TI - Soldiers of freedom: an illustrated history of African Americans in the Armed Forces SN - 1579122531 AV - UB418.A47 U1 - 355/.008996/073 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Black Dog & Leventhal KW - United States KW - Armed Forces KW - African Americans KW - History KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index; Choosing sides: the Revolutionary War era -- Wars of a young nation: slave uprisings and the War of 1812 -- If we make him a soldier, we concede the whole question: the Civil War -- Buffalo Soldiers: westward expansion and empire building -- Soldiers in search of an army: The World War I era -- Eleanor's niggers: World War II -- The highest standards of democracy: Korea and the Cold War -- I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong: Vietnam and its aftermath -- A new beginning: the modern military ER -