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Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII de Nat Brandt

Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII

Autor Nat Brandt, Nat Brnadt
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 1996
By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 were overseas -- serving chiefly in labor battalions.

Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but not extinguished". The collective anger erupted one day in Harlem when a young black soldier was shot by a white police officer.

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ISBN-13: 9780815603245
ISBN-10: 081560324X
Pagini: 277
Dimensiuni: 159 x 237 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Syracuse University Press

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By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where Jim Crow discrimination was prevalent - were all too common. In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943. Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but was not extinguished". Using eyewitness accounts, he describes the rage Harlemites felt, the discrimination and humiliation they shared with blacks across the country. The collective anger erupted one day in Harlem when a young black soldier was shot by a white police officer. The riot, in which six blacks were killed, seven hundred injured, and six arrested, became a turning point in America's race relations and a precursor to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.