Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights

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Let Us Fight as Free Men POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA Series Editors Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and Thomas J. Sugrue Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PR ESS PHILADELPHIA Let Us Fight as Free Men Black Soldiers and Civil Rights Christine Knauer Copyright 䉷 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knauer, Christine. Let us fight as free men : black soldiers and civil rights / Christine Knauer. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (politics and culture in modern America) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4597-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. African American soldiers—History—20th century. 2. United States—Armed Forces—African Americans—History—20th century. 3. World War, 1939–1945— Participation, African American. 4. Korean War, 1950–1953—Participation, African American. 5. African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century. 6. African Americans—Political activity—History—20th century. 7. Segregation—United States—History—20th century. 8. United States—Race relations—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series: Politics and culture in modern America. E185.63.K58 2014 355.0089'96073—dc23 2013046747 In Loving Memory of My Mother Hannelore Knauer This page intentionally left blank ...