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The Black soldier: from the American Revolution to Vietnam. Edited by Jay David and Elaine Crane.

Book/Text

New York, Morrow, 1971.

1971

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 355.1-A (Adler, B. Black soldier)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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A Black British soldier. Rev. ed.

Book/Text

[Toronto] 21st Century Book, 1969.

1969

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 323.142-B (Brathwaite, J. A. Black British soldier)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Roots of two Black Marine sergeants major, Sergeants Major Edgar R. Huff and Gilbert H. "Hashmark" Johnson : profiles in courage : a documented pictorial history / by Jesse J. Johnson.

Book/Text

Hampton, Va. : Ebony Pub., c1978.

1978

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 80-113Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Roy's trip to the battlefields of Europe : the diary of Royal A. Christian.

Book/Text

Chambersburg, Pa. : J. R. Kerr, [1919?]

1919

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 80-422Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The colored cadet at West Point.

Book/Text

New York, Arno Press, 1969.

1969-1878

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 81-528Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Black president and the hero : the holy rood / Elmer L. Fowler.

Book/Text

[Chicago?] : E.L. Fowler, 1971.

1971

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 85-67Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Black patriots of the American Revolution, 1775-1783.

Book/Text

[Princeton, N. J. : Carolingian Press, 1969?]

1969

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 87-91Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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True colors : 1004 days as a prisoner of war / by James Thompson.

Book/Text

Port Washington, N.Y. : Ashley Books, c1989.

1989-1981

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The Spirit of Allensworth [videorecording] / Spirit Productions in association with KTEH-TV ; writer, producer and director, Danny L. McGuire.

Film, Slide, etc.

San Jose, Calif. : KTEH-TV, 1980-07-04.

1980-1979

1 item

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FormatFilm, Slide, etc.Call numberSc Visual DVD-769Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Firefight at Yechon : courage & racism in the Korean war / Charles M. Bussey.

Book/Text

Washington : Brassey's, c1991.

1991

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 91-120Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Here and there with the rattlers / by Arthur P. Davis.

Book/Text

Detroit : Harlo, c1979.

1979

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 92-142Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Christian A. Fleetwood collection, 1879-1911.

Archival Mix

1879-1911

1 item

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 111Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Peter Salem, colored American soldier of the American Revolution, by Lillian Lewis Feurtado, for the National Equal Rights League on request of the Boston branch, in the interest of an annual race day.

Book/Text

[n.p., 1925?]

1925

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Salem (Feurtado, L. Peter Salem)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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On the trail of the buffalo soldier : biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled & edited by Frank N. Schubert.

Book/Text

Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994.

1994

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355-O (On the trail of the buffalo soldier)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Black fighting men : a proud history / Catherine Reef.

Book/Text

New York : Twenty-First Century Books, 1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 95-245Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The colored cadet at West Point [microform] : autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., first graduate of color from the U.S. Military Academy.

Microform

New York : H. Lee & Co., 1878.

1878

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro R-2241Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Step-by-step across the pond / by Cordell Lindsey.

Book/Text

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Dorrance, c1996.

1996

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 97-361Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Army life in a Black regiment, and other writings / Thomas Wentworth Higginson ; with an introduction and notes by R.D. Madison.

Book/Text

New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

1997

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 97-223Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Lasting valor / Vernon J. Baker, with Ken Olsen ; foreword by Colin L. Powell.

Book/Text

Columbus, Miss. : Genesis Press, c1997.

1997

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 97-1041Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Education, "race-adjustment," and the military : the life and work of Chaplain Allen Allensworth, 24th Infantry, U.S. Army / by Barron Krieg Oder.

Book/Text

1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 98-410Item locationOffsite
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As if it were glory : Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black regiments / edited with an introduction by Michael E. Stevens.

Book/Text

Madison, Wis. : Madison House, 1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 98-5498Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Memorable memoirs / by George Watson.

Book/Text

New York : Carlton Press, 1987.

1987

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 88-295Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Five Black preachers in Army blue, 1884-1901 : the Buffalo soldier chaplains / Alan K. Lamm.

Book/Text

Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c1998.

1998

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 99-626Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 99-316Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The making of an Afro-American : Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 / by Dorothy Sterling.

Book/Text

New York : Da Capo Press, 1996.

1996-1971

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 00-2995Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Recollections of my slavery days / William Henry Singleton ; introduction and annotations by Katherine Mellen Charron and David S. Cecelski.

Book/Text

Raleigh : Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1999.

1999

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 01-184Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm / Gail Buckley.

Book/Text

New York : Random House, c2001.

2001

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 01-700Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Fire on the beach : recovering the lost story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island lifesavers / David Wright and David Zoby.

Book/Text

New York : Scribner, 2000.

2000

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 01-874Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African American military heroes / Jim Haskins.

Book/Text

New York : J. Wiley & Sons, c1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355-H (Haskins, J. African American military heroes)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Heart of America Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. : biographical profiles.

Book/Text

Kansas City, Mo. : Heart of America Chapter, Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 01-674Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A gentleman of color : the life of James Forten / Julie Winch.

Book/Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

2002

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 02-327Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African American recipients of the Medal of Honor : a biographical dictionary, Civil War through Vietnam War / Charles W. Hanna.

Book/Text

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355.1-H (Hanna, C. African American recipients of the Medal of Honor)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Mon Amérique à moi : voyage dans l'Amérique noire, 1944-2000 / Claude Collin.

Book/Text

Paris : L'Harmattan, 2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 03-35Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African Americans at war : an encyclopedia / Jonathan D. Sutherland.

Book/Text

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355-S (Sutherland, J. African Americans at war) v. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Uncle Sam must be losing the war : black Marines of the 51st / Bill Downey ; introduction by Alex Haley.

Book/Text

San Francisco, Calif. : Strawberry Hill Press, c1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 86-228Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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For race and country : the life and career of Colonel Charles Young / David P. Kilroy.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger, 2003.

2003

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-183Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Without regard to race : the other Martin Robison Delany / Tunde Adeleke.

Book/Text

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-661Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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We were there : voices of African American veterans, from World War II to the war in Iraq / [compiled by] Yvonne Latty and ; with photographs by Ron Tarver.

Book/Text

New York : Amistad, c2004.

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-798Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Brothers in arms : the epic story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's forgotten heroes / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton.

Book/Text

New York : Broadway Books, 2004.

2004

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 04-975Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The encyclopedia of African American military history / William Weir ; foreword by Molefi Kete Asante ; preface by Lloyd Newton.

Book/Text

Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

2004

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 05-53Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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By duty bound : survival and redemption in a time of war / Ezell Ware, Jr., and Joel Engel.

Book/Text

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Group, 2005.

2005

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 06-363Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Combat multipliers [electronic resource] : African-American soldiers in four wars / by Krewasky A. Salter I.

Web Resource

Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : Combat Studies Institute Press, [2003]

2003

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Black cadet in a White bastion [electronic resource] : Charles Young at West Point / Brian G. Shellum ; foreword by Vincent K. Brooks.

Book/Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

2006

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-966Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American patriots : the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm / by Gail Buckley ; adapted for young people by Tonya Bolden.

Book/Text

New York : Crown Publishers, 2003.

2003

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 06-1238Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Inman's war : a soldier's story of life in a colored battalion in WWII / Jeffrey S. Copeland.

Book/Text

St. Paul, MN : Paragon House, 2006.

2006

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 06-2316Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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On the trail of the buffalo soldier II: new and revised biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917 / compiled and edited by Irene Schubert, Frank N. Schubert.

Book/Text

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

2004

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355-O (On the trail of the buffalo soldier II)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Blood on German snow : an African American artilleryman in World War II and beyond / Emiel W. Owens.

Book/Text

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2006.

2006

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 06-13630Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Honor in command : Lt. Freeman S. Bowley's Civil War service in the 30th United States Colored Infantry / edited by Keith Wilson ; foreword by John David Smith.

Book/Text

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2006.

2006

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIKL 07-1869Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Black American military leaders : a biographical dictionary / Walter L. Hawkins.

Book/Text

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.

2007

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc *355-H (Hawkins, W. Black American military leaders)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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Freedom's journey : African American voices of the Civil War / edited by Donald Yacovone.

Book/Text

Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, c2004.

2004

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 07-858Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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