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African American soldiers

Here are entered works on African American military personnel in the United States Army. Works on African American military personnel in other military services are entered under the name of the service subdivided by African Americans, e.g., United States. Marine Corps -- African Americans. Works on the organization, administration, and history of African American units within the United States Army are entered under United States. Army -- African American troops.

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• Soldiers -- United States
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• African American soldiers -- Juvenile fiction
• African American soldiers -- Kansas
• African American soldiers -- Kentucky
• African American soldiers -- Michigan
• African American soldiers -- Monuments
• African American soldiers -- New Caledonia
• African American soldiers -- Periodicals
• African American soldiers -- Personal narratives
• African American soldiers -- Poetry
• African American soldiers -- Songs and music
• African American soldiers -- United States
• African American soldiers -- West (U.S.)
• United States. Army -- African American troops

• African American military personnel
• Afro-American soldiers
• Negro soldiers
• Negroes as soldiers
• Soldiers, African American
• United States. Army -- African Americans

• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 2001), by Morris J. MacGregor (PDF at US Army CMH)
• Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (Washington: Center of Military History, 1981), by Morris J. MacGregor
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Listen, Brother! (New York: World View Publishers, 1968), by Robert F. Williams
  • illustrated HTML at aavw.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The American Negro Soldier With the Red Hand of France (Boston: The Cornhill Co., 1921), by Monroe Mason and Arthur Furr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Black Man's Burden, or, The Horrors of Southern Lynchings: The Most Thrilling Exposé of Southern Lawlessness Ever Presented to the American People (Olean, NY: Olean Evening Spirit, 1902), by Irenas J. Palmer, contrib. by Julius Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (c1919), by Emmett J. Scott
  • illustrated HTML at BYU
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, Upon Slavery, and Upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers (Loyal Publication Society #18; New York: Wm. C. Bryant and Co., printers, 1863)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Washington and General Jackson on negro soldiers. Gen. Banks on the bravery of negro troops. Poem--the Second Louisiana (Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro soldier: a select compilation. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Laura E. Wilkes, George Henry Moore, and William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war's greatest scandal! The story of Jim Crow in uniform. (The March on Washington movement, 1943), by Dwight Macdonald, Nancy Macdonald, and March on Washington Movement (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leadership and the Negro soldier. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by United States. Army Service Forces (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers ... (H.C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our war for human rights (Austin Jenkins Co.], 1919), by Kelly Miller, Emory Adams Allen, Frederick E. Drinker, and John J. Pershing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singing soldiers (C. Scribner's Sons, 1927), by John Jacob Niles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autobiography of James L. Smith : including also, reminiscences of slave life, recollections of the war, education of freedmen, causes of the exodus, etc. (Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light and dark of the rebellion. (G. W. Childs, 1863), by C. Edwards Lester (page images at HathiTrust)
• American civil war. Memories of incidents connected with the ... Rebellion ... including the proposition made ... November, 1861, when ... Gen. J. Cochrane ... advocated the arming of the slaves ... From writings ... (Rogers & Sherwood, Print., 1879), by John Cochrane and Henry O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Negro soldier with the Red Hand of France (The Cornhill Company, 1920), by Monroe Mason and Arthur Franklin Furr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General Washington and General Jackson, on negro soldiers. (H. C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and the flag : at the nation's service (Sent out by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1918), by Ralph Welles Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers. (Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1862), by George Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored regulars in the United States army (A. M. E. book concern, 1904), by T. G. Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missing pages in American history (D. C., Press of R. L. Pendleton, 1919), by Laura Eliza Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical notes on the employment of negroes in the American army of the revolution (C.T. Evans, 1862), by George Henry Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech [of Hon. J.F. Wilson, of Iowa,] on the bill to raise additional soldiers, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 2, 1863. (Towers, printers, 1863), by James Falconer Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641-1815 ([Washington, D.C.] : Press of R.L. Pendleton, [1919], 1919), by Laura E. Wilkes, Randall K. Burkett, and R. L. Pendleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army life in a black regiment. (Michigan State University Press, 1960), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion. (Little, Brown and company, 1897), by Norwood P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie militaire dans un régiment noir : aventures et pages intimes, \c d'après T.-W. Higginson, colonel du 1er Volontaires Caroline du Sud. (Fischbacher, 1884), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Valérie Boissier de Gasparin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tribute for the negro soldier (New York City : Bruce and Franklin, [1918], 1918), by John Edward Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pictorial history of the Negro in the great World War, 1917-1918. (New York : Touissant Pictorial Co., [1919], 1919), by Touissant Welcome (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Negro in the world war ([United States] : [publisher not identified], [1919], 1919), by Emmett J. Scott, Carter Godwin Woodson, Cedric Dover, Jesse Howard Hanley, Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and Cedric Dover Library (Emory University. MARBL) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the 116th Regiment U.S.C. Infantry : from its organization in the early part of the spring and summer of 1864, to the present time, giving a list of names of all officers and enlisted men who have ever belonged to the regiment, ... (s.n.], 1866), by Charles Kireker and John A. Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army life in a black regiment. (Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier (Howard University print., 1895), by Christian A. Fleetwood, George William Cook, and Atlanta. Cotton states and international exposition (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in the light of the Great War (Baltimore, Md. : [publisher not identified], 1918., 1918), by William Pickens and Thomas W. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier (Providence : The [Soldiers and Sailors Historical] Society, 1913., 1913), by George R. Sherman and Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro soldiers' and sailors' memorial : hearing before the Committee on the Library, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 5131. October 14, 1919. (G.P.O., 1919), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• No slave beneath that starry flag (Horace Waters ;, 1864), by E. A. Parkhurst and George Lansing Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measuring changes in institutional racial discrimination in the Army. (Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1977), by United States. Department of the Army and Peter G. Nordlie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia negro soldiers and seamen in the Revolutionary war (Guide Quality Press, 1944), by Luther Porter Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Monument or memorial building to the memory of Negro soldiers and sailors. Hearings, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, May 28, 1924. (Govt. print. off., 1924), by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• To discontinue the enlistment of Negroes for military service : speech of James L. Slayden of Texas, in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, January 8, 1907. ([Govt. Print. Off.], 1907), by James L. Slayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• On clipped wings; the story of Jim Crow in the Army Air Corps (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1943), by William Henry Hastie and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The S.G. : marche comique (Wm. A. Pond & Co. ;, 1875), by William Carter and Gilmore's Band (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American Negro in the Great World War : his splendid record in the battle zones of Europe : including a resume of his past services to his country in the wars of the revolution, of 1812, the war of the rebellion, the Indian wars on the frontier, the Spanish-American war, and the late imbroglio with Mexico (G.G. Sapp, 1919), by William Allison Sweeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Army and the Negro (U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, 1971), by US Army Military History Research Collection and John Slonaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio on the enlistment of Negro soldiers, delivered during the debate in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1863. (Washington, 1862), by George H. Pendleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier, by Christian A. Fleetwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Out of the Briars: An Autobiography and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, by A. H. Newton, contrib. by J. P. Sampson (Gutenberg ebook)
• What the Negro Has Done for Liberty in America, by John Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779: The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 5, by T. G. Steward (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Colored Regulars in the United States Army, by T. G. Steward (Gutenberg ebook)

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