War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq

by Kimberley L. Phillips

Book Overview

African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars after Truman's order and their protracted struggles for equal citizenship galvanized a vibrant antiwar activism that reshaped their struggles for freedom.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469613891
• ISBN13: 9781469613895
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"