Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2004., ABC-CLIO Call No: Ref 355.0092 Sut Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Places the African American in the context of four hundred years of military history of the United States.
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2001., Random House Call No: 973.01 BUC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the history of African-American military service, describing military racial policies and the everyday experiences of Black soldiers, and draws from interviews with veterans spanning a century of combat.
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2000., Juvenile, Aladdin Paperbacks Call No: 978 .00496073 Edition: 1st Aladdin Paperba Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Focuses on the experiences of African Americans as mountain men, soldiers, homesteaders, and scouts on the frontiers of the American West.
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c2016., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 973.3 113 092 Click here to access this interactive ebook Summary Note: "While Crispus Attucks was the first American to die for the cause of liberty he was not the only African American patriot. This informational text looks at Attucks life, his murder at the Boston Massacre and the determination of colonists to be free of Britain's tyrannical rule. This book, however, also looks at other African American patriots who fought at Lexington and Concord and other battles and who bravely fought for the nation's freedom and their own"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2012]., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: B MOORE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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c2012., Delacorte Press Call No: 973.924 MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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c2012., Adolescent, Delacorte Press Call No: CRIME & PUNISHMENT NF MOO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
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2014., Creative Editions Call No: WAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A regiment of African-American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music"--Provided by publisher.
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2014., Creative Editions Call No: HI-INT 940.54 LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music.
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2014., Juvenile, Creative Editions Call No: 940.54 LEWIS Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Picture and rhyming book exploring the history of the Harlem Hellfighters, black Americans from Harlem who fought in World War I under the leadership of bandleader and lieutenant James Reese Europe.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: HI-INT B BRY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Artist Ashley Bryan's experience as a Black soldier in the segregated army of WWII"--
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: WORLD WAR II Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir of African American artist Ashley Bryan in which he recounts his service as a Black soldier in the segregated army of WWII, and includes sketches and paintings in which he recorded his experiences.
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: 741.6 092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A memoir of African American artist Ashley Bryan in which he recounts his service as a Black soldier in the segregated army of WWII, and includes sketches and paintings in which he recorded his experiences.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: African American artist and illustrator Ashley Bryan recounts his experiences as a soldier in the segregated army of WWII and how he overcame the racism and horrors of war to pursue his love of art. Bryan includes never-before-seen artwork and letters along with diary entries that document his fears and how he was often treated worse that even the German prisoners of war.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Here are the life stories of George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding, African American soldiers who fought in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the famous black regiment of the Civil War, and who were also the first African American war correspondents to report from the battlefield."--OCLC.
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-- Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry's war to end slavery[2017], Juvenile, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: 920 SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the battlefield. Like the other thousands of black soldiers in the regiment, they not only fought against the Confederacy and the inhumanity of slavery, but also against injustice in their own army. The regiment's protest against unfair pay resulted in America's first major civil rights victory; equal pay for African American soldiers. This fresh perspective on the Civil War includes an author's note, timeline, bibliography, index and source notes. .
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c2008., Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: On my own historySummary Note: Tells the story of James Forten, a free African-American boy from Philadelphia who was taken prisoner aboard a British warship and later on a British prison ship until the end of the war.