Directory of Military Resources

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This category covers African-American achievement in military history. African-Americans in military service, their units, and officers of those units should be featured here.

Subcategories

• American Revolution
• Attucks, Crispus
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Civil War
• Flipper, Henry Ossian
• World War II

Resources in This Category

• African Americans in the US Army

  http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/topics/afam/afam-usa.htm
  This section of the official US Army site highlights African-American service. It discusses notable African-American officers and units and key events. It also includes several photo galleries.

• African-Americans in Military History

  http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/afhist/aftoc.htm
  Extensive bibliography on black soldiers in the American forces from the Revolution to WWII, by the US Airforce University.

• African-Americans in the U.S. Merchant Marine and U.S. Maritime Service

  http://www.usmm.org/african-americans.html
  US Merchant Marines offer a small tribute to the African-Americans who served in WWII. View photographs of some of the soldiers.

• Over 100 Years Later, Black Cadet Gets his Due

  http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/016.html
  Johnson Whittaker, one of the first black cadets at West Point, was unjustly court-martialed at the time. In 1995 President Clinton posthumously gave him a commission.

• Teaching With Documents: Photographs of the 369th Infantry and African Americans during World War I

  http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/369th-infantry/
  The National Archives Digital Classroom tells the story of the "Harlem Hellfighters".

• Wikipedia: African-American Medal of Honor recipients

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients
  Lists Medal of Honor recipients by time period. Includes places, dates, ranks, citations and, in many cases, pictures.

 

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