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• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
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• The Black Phalanx: African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, by Joseph T. Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• "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)

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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
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• 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)

• 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
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• Listen, Brother! (New York: World View Publishers, 1968), by Robert F. Williams
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• 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
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• A Narrative of the Negro (Washington: Press of R.L. Pendleton, 1912), by Leila Amos Pendleton
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
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• 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)
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• An historical research respecting the opinions of the founders of the republic on negroes as slaves, as citizens, and as soldiers. (Boston, Printed by J. Wilson and son, 1862), by George Livermore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored regulars in the United States army, (Philadelphia, A. M. E. book concern, 1904), by T. G. Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missing pages in American history, ([Washington, D. C., Press of R. L. Pendleton, c1919]), by Laura Eliza Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion. (Boston, Little, Brown and company, 1897), by Norwood P. Hallowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their old black Joe / (New York : Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., c1918), by Harry Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army life in a black regiment. ([East Lansing] Michigan State University Press, [c1960]), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Army life in a black regiment. (Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870, c1869), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier / (Washington, D.C. : Howard University print., 1895), by Christian A. Fleetwood, George William Cook, and Atlanta. Cotton states and international exposition (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of military agencies relating to African Americans from the post-World War I period to the Korean War / (Washington, DC : National Archives and Records Administration, 2000), by Lisha B. Penn and United States National Archives and Records Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monument or memorial building to the memory of Negro soldiers and sailors. Hearings, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, May 28, 1924. (Washington, Govt. print. off., 1924), by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Library (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. (Washington : G.P.O., 1919), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Washington and General Jackson, on negro soldiers. (Philadelphia, H. C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (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. (Washington : [Govt. Print. Off.], 1907), by James L. Slayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Then and now, or, The soldier spirit of Harriet Tubman /, by James E. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kelly Miller's History of the World War for human rights : an intensely human and brilliant account of the World War : why America entered the conflict : what the allies fought for : and a thrilling account of the important part taken by the Negro in the tragic defeat of Germany : the downfall of autocracy, and complete victory for the cause of righteousness and freedom : including a wonderful array of striking pictures made from recent official photographs, illustrating and describing the new and awful devices used in the horrible methods of modern warfare, together with remarkable pictures of the Negro in action in both army and navy /, by Kelly Miller, Evelyn Graves Crawford, Matt N. Crawford, Emory Adams Allen, Frederick E. Drinker, and John J. Pershing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old shady : Air -- Away down South., by Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored brigade. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colored volunteer /, by Tom Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• A song, dedicated to the colored volunteer., by Tom Craig and Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kelly Miller's Authentic history of the Negro in the World War : being an intensely human and brilliant account of the World War and why America and the Allies are fighting and the important part taken by the Negro : including the horrors and wonders of modern warfare, the new and strange devices, etc. /, by Kelly Miller, Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, and Louise Thompson Patterson Library (Emory University. General Libraries) EMU (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tribute for the negro soldier /, by John Edward Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scott's official history of the American Negro in the World War /, by Emmett J. Scott, Carter Godwin Woodson, Cedric Dover, Jesse Howard Hanley, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and Cedric Dover Library (Emory University. MARBL) GEU (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our war for human rights : being an intensely human and brillant account of the World War and why and for what purpose America and the allies are fighting and the important part taken by the Negro : including the horrors and wonders of modern warfare, the new and strange devices that have come into use, etc. /, by Kelly Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored volunteers., by Michel Fabre and Michel Fabre Library (Emory University. General Libraries) GEU, contrib. by Charles Magnus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in the light of the Great War /, by William Pickens and Thomas W. Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tribute to Colonel Charles Young /, by W. S. Scarborough, Charles Simpson Butcher, and A.M.E. Book Concern (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pictorial history of the Negro in the great World War, 1917-1918., by Touissant Welcome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roy's trip to the battlefields of Europe : being the diary of Royal A. Christian., by Royal A. Christian (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and views of colored officers training camp : for 1917 at Fort Des Moines, Iowa /, by John L. Thompson, Carter Godwin Woodson, former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, and Bystander (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro as a soldier /, by George R. Sherman and Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enlisting soldiers., by Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kelly Miller's History of the World War for human rights : an intensely human and brilliant account of the World War : why America entered the conflict : what the allies fought for : and a thrilling account of the important part taken by the Negro in the tragic defeat of Germany : the downfall of autocracy, and complete victory for the cause of righteousness and freedom : including a wonderful array of striking pictures made from recent official photographs, illustrating and describing the new and awful devices used in the horrible methods of modern warfare, together with remarkable pictures of the Negro in action in both army and navy /, by Kelly Miller, Richard A. Long, Emory Adams Allen, Frederick E. Drinker, and John J. Pershing (page images at HathiTrust)
• On clipped wings; the story of Jim Crow in the Army Air Corps, ([New York, 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)
• Colored soldiers / (Macon, Ga., The J. W. Burke company, 1923), by William Irwin MacIntyre (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 ... (New York, Rogers & Sherwood, Print., 1879), by John Cochrane, ed. by Henry O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The light and dark of the rebellion. (Philadelphia, G. W. Childs, [c1863]), by C. Edwards Lester (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. (Norwich [Conn] : Press of the Bulletin Co., 1881), by James Lindsay Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Negro soldier with the Red Hand of France [microform] / (Boston : The Cornhill Company, [c1920]), by Monroe Mason and Arthur Franklin Furr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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.l. : s.n.], 1866), by Charles Kireker and John A. Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo Soldiers Commemoration Act of 2005 : report (to accompany S. 205). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2005]), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (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 / ([Chicago] : G.G. Sapp, c1919), by William Allison Sweeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buffalo soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in the 1930s and early 1940s / (Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, [1991]), by George E. Knapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moton Field/Tuskegee Airmen : special resources study. (Atlanta, Ga. : National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, 1998) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Virginia negro soldiers and seamen in the Revolutionary war / (Norfolk, Virginia : Guide Quality Press, 1944), by Luther Porter Jackson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buffalo Soldiers Commemoration Act of 2003 : report (to accompany S. 499). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2003]), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical romance of the American Negro / (Baltimore : Press of Thomas & Evans, 1902), by Charles Henry Fowler and Nicholas Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kelly Miller's history of the World War for human rights : an intensely human and brilliant account of the World War : why America entered the conflict : what the allies fought for : and a thrilling account of the important part taken by the Negro in the tragic defeat of Germany : the downfall of autocracy, and complete victory for the cause of righteousness and freedom : including a wonderful array of striking pictures made from recent official photographs, illustrating and describing the new and awful devices used in the horrible methods of modern warfare, together with remarkable pictures of the Negro in action in both army and navy / ([Washington, D.C.? : Austin Jenkins Co.], c1919), by Kelly Miller, Emory Adams Allen, Frederick E. Drinker, and John J. Pershing (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers ... (Philadelphia, H.C. Baird, 1863), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measuring changes in institutional racial discrimination in the Army. (Washington, D.C. : Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1977), by United States. Department of the Army and Peter G. Nordlie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and the flag : at the nation's service / (Cincinnati : Sent out by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, c1918), by Ralph Welles Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The war's greatest scandal! The story of Jim Crow in uniform. ([New York] The March on Washington movement, [1943]), by Dwight Macdonald, Nancy Macdonald, and March on Washington Movement (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vie militaire dans un régiment noir : aventures et pages intimes, \c d'après T.-W. Higginson, colonel du 1er Volontaires Caroline du Sud. (Paris : Fischbacher, 1884), by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Valérie Boissier de Gasparin, trans. by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin (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 /, by Laura E. Wilkes, Randall K. Burkett, and R. L. Pendleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fort Myer buffalo soldiers / (Fort Myer, VA : The Office, [1995?]), by Fort Myer Military Community. Equal Opportunity Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leadership and the Negro soldier. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by United States. Army Service Forces (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro soldiers ("These truly are the brave") and other poems /, by Roscoe C. Jamison, contrib. by William F. Neil (page images at HathiTrust)
• No slave beneath that starry flag / ([New York] (481 Broadway [New York]) : Horace Waters ; Boston : O. Ditson & Co., ©1864), by E. A. Parkhurst and George Lansing Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The S.G. : marche comique / (New York (547 Broadway) : Wm. A. Pond & Co. ; San Francisco : M. Gray ; Pittsburgh : Kleber & Bro. ; Savannah : Ludden & Bates ; Troy : Cluett & Sons ; Milwaukee : H.N. Hempsted, ©1875), by William Carter and Gilmore's Band. prf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Army and the Negro / (Carlisle Barracks, Pa. : U.S. Army Military History Research Collection, 1971), by US Army Military History Research Collection and John Slonaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Washington and General Jackson on negro soldiers. Gen. Banks on the bravery of negro troops. Poem--the Second Louisiana, (Philadelphia, Printed for gratuitous distribution, [1863]), by Henry Carey Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro soldier: a select compilation. (New York, Negro Universities Press, [1970]), by Laura E. Wilkes, George Henry Moore, and William Lloyd Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom by the sword : the U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 / (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), by William A. Dobak and Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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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