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Title Taps for a Jim Crow army : letters from black soldiers in World War II / Phillip McGuire, editor ; with forewords by Benjamin Quarles and Bernard Nalty.
Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1993.
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Description xliii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 1983.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263) and index.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Afro-American -- History -- Sources.
United States. Army -- Afro-American troops -- History -- Sources.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Afro-American soldiers -- Correspondence.
Added Author McGuire, Phillip, 1944-
ISBN 0813118514 (acid-free paper)
0813108225 (pbk.) $19.00