![]() ![]() WWII was America's last segregated conflict. Some black activists of the interwar years correspondingly turned to the revolutionary promises of Communism, playing a role in the Spanish Civil War's International Brigades, which Buckley arguably exaggerates. During the First World War, black troops won more credit under French colors than a segregated American Expeditionary Force would allow. ![]() Black regiments, regulars and volunteers, served in the Plains Indian Wars and in the wars of empire at the century's turn. By the end of the Civil War, the Union army counted its black soldiers in entire divisions and army corps. It began as an individual process during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. But in a dominant culture that for much of its history was overtly segregated and highly racist, the pressures of necessity opened military service to blacks. She pulls no punches in describing discrimination against black soldiers, misrepresentation of their performances and denial of their achievements. Basing her account heavily on interviews and similar primary material, Buckley focuses on the particular experiences of black soldiers. (1986), and Gerald Astor's narrative account, The Right to Fight This work complements Bernard Nalty's academically oriented history of blacks in America's wars, Strength for the Fight ![]()
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