An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China

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Copyright © 2007 by Della Adams and Lewis H. Carlson All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America lc 2007004224 isbn 978-1-55849-595-1 (paper); 594-4 (library cloth) Designed by Richard Hendel Set in Quadraat and Mrs. Eaves by dix! Printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Clarence, 1929–1999. An American dream : the life of an African American soldier and POW who spent twelve years in communist China / Clarence Adams; edited by Della Adams and Lewis H. Carlson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-1-55849-595-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn 978-1-55849-594-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Korean War, 1950–1953—Prisoners and prisons, American. 2. Adams, Clarence, 1929–1999. 3. Prisoners of war—United States—Biography. 4. Prisoners of war—Korea (North)—Biography. 5. Prisoners of war—China— Biography. I. Adams, Della, 1939– II. Carlson, Lewis H. III. Title. ds921.a33 2007 951.904'27—dc22 [B] 2007004224 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. This book is published with the support and cooperation of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts Boston, and the William Joiner Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts. frontispiece Clarence Adams, age 17. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? langston hughes I still have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream . . . I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted . . . martin luther king jr. ...