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• 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
• A Study of the Negro in Military Service (Washington: Dept. of Defense, 1950), by Jean Byers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in World War II ("volume 1" only volume known to be published; Washington: Sentry Pub. Co., c1944) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Not Without Dust (New York: Exposition Press, c1954), by Seginald Chantrelle (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

• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)

• "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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

• Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A United States Army "Scottsboro Case", by Vito Marcantonio and William H. Hastie (PDF page images at MSU)

• A'Bout Face (partial serial archives)

• Plea of the Negro Soldier, and a Hundred Other Poems (Easthampton, MA: Press of Enterprise Printing Co., c1908), by Charles Frederick White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at Michigan

• Warriors of Color (c1995), by Harold Ray Sayre (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland, 1863-65 (Providence: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1885), by T. J. Morgan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Warriors of Color (c1995), by Harold Ray Sayre (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea (Washington: Center of Military History, Department of the Army, 1996), by William T. Bowers, George L. MacGarrigle, and William M. Hammond
  • PDF and illustrated HTML at US Army CMH
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)
• Kansas in the Sixties (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1911), by S. J. Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Recollections of My Slavery Days (Peekskill, NY: Highland Democrat, 1922), by William Henry Singleton (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Our Negro Veterans (public affairs pamphlet #128; New York: Public Affairs Committee, c1947), by Charles G. Bolté and Louis Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• In Irons: U.S. Military Might in the New Century (1995), by Harlan Ullman (page images at Google)
• QDR 2001: Strategy-Driven Choices for America's Security, ed. by Michèle A. Flournoy (page images at Google)

• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Disaster and Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa: Learning from Rwanda (1994), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• The Role of the Military in Combating Terrorism: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, on Certain Provisions of S. 735, A Bill to Prevent and Punish Acts of Terrorism, and Certain Provisions of S. 761, A Bill to Improve the Ability of the United States to Respond to the International Terrorist Threat (Washington: GPO, 1996), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mind the Gap: Promoting a Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs (1999), by David C. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler, and Martin C. Libicki (page images at Google)

• Command, Control, and the Common Defense (revised edition, 1996), by C. Kenneth Allard (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Adjusting to a New Security Environment: The Defense Technology and Industrial Base Challenge (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• California Base Closure: Lessons for DoD's Cleanup Program, by David Rubenson and John R. Anderson (PDF and HTML at rand.org)

• Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security (1998), ed. by Robert B. Oakley, Michael J. Dziedzic, and Eliot M. Goldberg (page images at Google)
• Empire's Labor: The Global Army That Supports U.S. Wars (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Adam Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Use and Care of Hand Tools and Measuring Tools (US Armed Forces technical manual, revised 2014) (PDF at af.mil)

• Why is the Colonel Called "Kernal"? The Origin of the Ranks and Rank Insignia Now Used by the United States Armed Forces, by Raymond Oliver (illustrated HTML at navy.mil)

• Korea: Facts You Need to Know (pamphlet 608-15; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1974), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (Washington: National Academies Press, 2013), by Institute of Medicine Committee on the Initial Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans, and Their Families (multiple formats at NAP)

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