Kimberley L Phillips
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwood
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This book examines the century-long migration of African Americans who moved within the South after the Civil War and then left to settle permanently in other regions, irrevocably altering the political, social, and cultural history of the United States; and considers these movements within the broader historical, political, and cultural context of the African Diaspora.
Daily Life during African American Migrations focuses attention...
Daily Life during African American Migrations focuses attention...
2) War! what is it good for?: black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"African Americans' long campaign for 'the right to fight' forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom. Using an...