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  • The Negro in the military service of the United States, 1639-1886 [microform] / prepared under the direction of Richard C. Drum, by Elon A. Woodward.

    • Text
    • Washington : Adjuntant General's Office, 1888.
    • 1888
    • 5 Items
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    Text 1099.9227 reel 5Off-site
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  • The Negro in the military service of the United States, 1639-1886 [microform] / prepared under the direction of Richard C. Drum, by Elon A. Woodward.

    • Text
    • Washington : Adjuntant General's Office, 1888.
    • 1888
    • 1 Item
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  • African American Soldiers in the Civil War [electronic resource] / Sara Ann McGill.

    • Text
    • [Toledo, Ohio] : Great Neck Publishing, 2009.
    • 2009-
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  • Freedom by the sword : the U.S. colored troops, 1862-1867 / by William A. Dobak.

    • Text
    • New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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  • Soldiering for freedom : how the Union army recruited, trained, and deployed the U.S. Colored Troops / Bob Luke & John David Smith.

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    • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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  • Blacks in the U.S. Army, then and now.

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    • [Washington, D.C.] : Headquarters, Department of the Army, Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-1, [2009?]
    • 2009
    • 1 Resource

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    https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo59006

  • To unite-- regardless / International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW-CIO).

    • Text
    • Detroit, MI : International Education Department, UAW-CIO, [1943?]
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
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  • The Black soldier (documented, 1619-1815); missing pages in United States history, edited by Jesse J. Johnson.

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    • Hampton, Va. [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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  • Leadership and the Negro soldier. Headquarters, Army Service Forces.

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    • Washington, U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1944.
    • 1944
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 355-U (United States. Army Service Forces. Leadership and the Negro soldier)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 / by William A. Dobak.

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    • Washington, D.C. : U.S. Army, Center of Military History ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/030/30-24/CMH_Pub_30-24.pdf
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  • Record of action of the convention held at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 15th and 16th, 1863, for the purpose of facilitating the introduction of colored troops into the service of the United States.

    • Text
    • New York : Francis & Loutrel, 1863.
    • 1863
    • 1 Item
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  • African Americans during the Civil War / Deborah H. DeFord.

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    • New York : Chelsea House, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

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  • Lincoln and the U.S. colored troops / John David Smith.

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    • Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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  • A sketch of the 29th regiment of Connecticut colored troops [microform] / by J. [i.e. I] J. Hill, giving a full account of its formation, of all the battles through which it passed, and its final disbandment.

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    • Baltimore : Printed by Daughtery, Maguire, 1867.
    • 1867
    • 1 Item
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  • Compiled records showing service of military units in volunteer Union organizations, reels 204-217: U. S. Colored Troops.

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    • Washington, National Archives and Records Service, 1964.
    • 1964
    • 14 Items
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    Text Sc Micro R-3011 r. 217Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Jim Crow joins up : a study of Negroes in the armed forces of the United States / by Ruth Danenhower Wilson.

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    • New York : Press of W.J. Clark, [1944]
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
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    Text 326 W75Off-site
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  • African American Army officers of World War I : a vanguard of equality in war and beyond / Adam P. Wilson.

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    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
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  • Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Army collection, 1951-1968.

    • Mixed material
    • 1951-1968
    • 1 Item

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    http://archives.nypl.org/scm/21180
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  • U.S. infantry tactics, for the instruction, exercise, and manœuvres, of the soldier, a company, line of skirmishers, and battalion [microform] : for the use of the colored troops of the United States infantry / prepared under the direction of the War Department.

    • Text
    • New York, D. Van Nostrand, [c1863]
    • 1863
    • 1 Item
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  • A guide to the microfilm edition of Records of U.S. Colored Troops. Pt. 1. Letters related to recruitment of African Americans, 1863-1865 / editor Robert E. Lester ; guide compiled by Faith Farmer and Daniel Lewis.

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    • Bethesda, MD : UPA Collection from LexisNexis, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item

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  • The colored regulars in the United States Army [microform] : with a sketch of the history of the colored American, and an account of his services in the wars of the country, from the period of the Revolutionary War to 1899 ; introductory letter from Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles ... / by T.G. Steward ...

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : A.M.E. Book Concern, 1904.
    • 1970-1904

  • Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops late 1st S. C. volunteers / by Susie King Taylor ; with illustrations.

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    • Boston : Published by the author, 1902.
    • 1902
    • 3 Items

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  • President Lincoln's recruiter : General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War / Michael A. Eggleston.

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    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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  • Jim Crow joins up, a study of Negroes in the armed forces of the United States, by Ruth Danenhower Wilson.

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    • New York, Press of W.J. Clark [1944]
    • 1944
    • 2 Items
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  • Jim Crow joins up : a study of Negroes in the armed forces of the United States / by Ruth Danenhower Wilson.

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    • New York : Press of W. J. Clark, c1945.
    • 1945
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 940.91-W Wilson, R. Jim Crow joins up. 1945)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • President Lincoln's recruiter : General Lorenzo Thomas and the United States Colored Troops in the Civil War / Michael A. Eggleston.

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    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text E467.1.T43 E35 2013Off-site
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  • Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 / by William A. Dobak.

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    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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  • Colored volunteers of Maryland : bounty records of 9th Regiment, United States Colored Troops, 1863-1866 / by Agnes Kane Callum.

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    • Baltimore, Md. : Mullac Publisher, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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  • 9th. Regiment United States Colored Troops, Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War, 1863-1866 / by Agnes Kane Callum.

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    • Baltimore, Md. : Mullac Publishers, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 00-56Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Patton's panthers : the African-American 761st tank battalion in World War II / Charles W. Sasser.

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    • New York : Pocket Books, 2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 05-453Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Record of the services of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. colored troops.

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    • North Stratford, NH : Ayer Company Pub. Inc., 2000.
    • 2000-1878
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 01-861Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Black southerners in gray : essays on Afro-Americans in Confederate armies / by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr. ... [et al.] ; with an epilogue by Andrew Chandler Battaile ; edited by Richard Rollins.

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    • Redondo Beach, Calif. : Rank and File Publications, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 03-862Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • The Black military experience in the American West. Edited by John M. Carroll.

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    • New York, Liveright [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text E185.63.C37 1971Off-site
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  • The Black military experience in the American West. Edited by John M. Carroll.

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    • New York, Liveright [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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  • Blacks in gray uniforms : a new look at the south's most forgotten combat troops 1861-1865 / Philip Thomas Tucker.

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    • [Charleston, South Carolina] : Arcadia Publishing, [2018]
    • 2018-2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 21-1465Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Negro soldiers in the Confederate army.

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    • [Rosedale, N.Y., 1969]
    • 1969
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc 973.7-M (Minion, J. Negro soldiers in the Confederate army)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Blood for dignity : the story of the first integrated combat unit in the U.S. Army / David Colley.

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    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 03-245Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Trial and triumph : essays in Tennessee's African American history / edited by Carroll Van West.

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    • Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2002], ©2002.
    • 2002-2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text F445.N4 T75 2002 Off-site
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  • The 784th Tank Battalion in World War II : history of an African American armored unit in Europe / Joe Wilson, Jr. ; foreword by Bill Smith ; afterword by Joseph E. Wilson, Sr.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item

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    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006029579.html
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    Text Sc F 07-108Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • What's a Commie ever done to Black people? : A Korean War memoir of fighting in the U.S. Army's last all negro unit / by Curtis James Morrow.

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    • Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 97-203Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Negro troops of antebellum Louisiana; a history of the Battalion of Free Men of Color [by] Roland C. McConnell.

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    • Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [c1968]
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 356.1-M (McConnell, R. Negro troops of antebellum Louisiana)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Deliberations and summary booklet : Cato Freedom conference and think tank : United States Colored Troops Institute, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, April 30-May 2, 2010 / prepared by Harry Bradshaw Matthews.

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    • Oneonta, N.Y. : USCT Institute, Hartwick College, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc F 10-507 no. 1-3Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • African-American heroes, 1776-1919 : the story of Sergeant Neadom Roberts.

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    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Dorrance Publishing Co, [2019]
    • 2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 21-357Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Social research and the desegregation of the U.S. Army; two original 1951 field reports by Leo Bogart [and others] With the contribution of Gertrude Abramson [and others] Edited and with an introd. by Leo Bogart.

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    • Chicago, Markham Pub. Co. [1969]
    • 1969
    • 2 Items
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    Text IEC (Social research and the desegregation of the U.S. Army)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121
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  • The 784th Tank Battalion in World War II : history of an African American armored unit in Europe / Joe Wilson, Jr. ; foreword by Bill Smith ; afterword by Joseph E. Wilson, Sr.

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item

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  • Jim Crow, Uncle Sam, and the Tuskegee flying units : race relations in the United States Army Air Forces in Europe during World War II / by William Alexander Percy.

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    • 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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  • What's a Commie ever done to Black people? : A Korean War memoir of fighting in the U.S. Army's last all negro unit / by Curtis James Morrow.

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    • Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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  • Social research and the desegregation of the U.S. Army ; two original 1951 field reports / by Leo Bogart [and others] With the contribution of Gertrude Abramson [and others] Edited and with an introd. by Leo Bogart.

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    • Chicago : Markham Pub. Co., [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
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    Text E185.63 .S6Off-site
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  • The Spanish-American War volunteer; Ninth United States volunteer infantry roster and muster; biographies; Cuban sketches.

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    • Middletown, Pa., The Author, 1899.
    • 1899
    • 2 Items
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  • The Hellfighters of Harlem : African-American soldiers who fought for the right to fight for their country / Bill Harris.

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    • New York : Carroll & Graf Pub., 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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