[PDF] A Different Race World War Ii The Alaska Highway Racism And A Court Martial eBook

Author : Christine and Dennis McClure
Publisher : Little Lands End Publishing, LLP
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1735841714

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The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.

Author : Christine McClure
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2021-01-02
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ISBN : 9781735841731

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The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.

Author : William E. Griggs
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578065042

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A photographic record of a black regiment's contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion

Author : Christine McClure
Publisher : Epicenter Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1935347888

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We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers

Author : Ira Calvin
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781389865756

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First published in 1944 by an American soldier serving in the Pacific War against Japan, this book is a product of its time and offers a fascinating, if antiquated, insight into racial politics in America during World War II. Although stridently pro-segregation, the author did however accept that this policy was ultimately immoral, and that the only fair solution to the racial problem was geographical physical separation. This book is an exact reproduction of the original, even down to the cover art and back page text, an excerpt of which reads as follows: "Mr. Calvin takes the stand that, as long as we are going to set the world in order, we might just as well decide right now that there will have to be two worlds, i.e.: a white world and a colored world. "He maintains that if we do not do this, the white race will eventually be dissolved, and in the end there will be only one world: a colored one."

Author : Morris J. MacGregor
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780160019258

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CMH Pub 50-1-1. Defense Studies Series. Discusses the evolution of the services' racial policies and practices between World War II and 1965 during the period when black servicemen and women were integrated into the Nation's military units.

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Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Canada
ISBN :

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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Author : William T. Bowers
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN : 0788139908

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The history of the 24th Infantry regiment in Korea is a difficult one, both for the veterans of the unit & for the Army. This book tells both what happened to the 24th Infantry, & why it happened. The Army must be aware of the corrosive effects of segregation & the racial prejudices that accompanied it. The consequences of the system crippled the trust & mutual confidence so necessary among the soldiers & leaders of combat units & weakened the bonds that held the 24th together, producing profound effects on the battlefield. Tables, maps & illustrations.