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10%OFFBrenda L. Moore - To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II - 9780814755877 - V9780814755877
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To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II

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Description for To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 34 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSJ1; JWD; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.

The story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas
While African American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. However, under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the Black press, and even President Roosevelt, the US War Department was forced to deploy African American women to the European theater in 1945.
African American women answered the call to serve from all over the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press New York
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814755877
SKU
V9780814755877
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Brenda L. Moore
Brenda L. Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. A Presidential Appointee to the American Battle Monuments Commission, she served on active duty for six years in the US Army in the United States and Europe.

Reviews for To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African-American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II
A rich, comprehensive study.
Philadelphia New Observer
Drawing on the testimony of former members of the unit, Moore recounts its formation, training and service in the European theater of operations in 1945-46, highlighting the discrimination women faced because of their race and gender. . . . An important contribution to African American and gender studies .
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