Harlem Hellfighters / by Shannon Baker Moore ; content consultant, Justin Quinn Olmstead, PHD, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma.

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Title:

Harlem Hellfighters / by Shannon Baker Moore ; content consultant, Justin Quinn Olmstead, PHD, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma.

ISBN:

9781624039225

Personal Author:

Moore, Shannon Baker

Publication Information:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2016]

Physical Description:

112 pages : illustrations, color map ; 22 x 25 cm.

Contents:

Battling Black Death -- The fight for freedom -- Fighting for equality on the home front -- Recruiting the Fighting Fifteenth -- War in Europe and war at home -- The Fighting Fifteenth in France -- At the front -- The boys come home -- Aftermath of biracial warfare -- Timeline -- Essential facts -- Glossary.

Summary:

Introduces the Harlem Hellfighters, discussing how the regiment formed, racial tensions they faced in the Army and at home, and their time at the front.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 369th.

United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 20th century.

United States. Army -- African American troops

Geographic Term:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.

Subject Term:

World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American.

African American soldiers -- History 20th century.

African American soldiers--Europe

African American soldiers -- History.

Black soldiers -- History 20th century