Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist

by Roi Ottley and Mark A. Huddle

When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light.

Already famous as the author of New World A-Coming--in which he decried the hypocrisy of America fighting for freedom in Europe while denying it to blacks at home--Ottley was sent to cover the experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700617698
• ISBN13: 9780700617692
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"