Discusses the contributions of black soldiers in the United States, from the American Revolution to the battlefields of today, presenting individual and group stories, details of battles, and descriptions of army life.

"A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem journeys across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, inspiring a continent with their brand of jazz music"--

"The Employment of African Americans in Law Enforcement, 1803-1865, by Lievin Kambama Mboma, examines pertinent primary source and secondary data on police, justices of the peace, and militia duties entrusted to African Americans in Louisiana and in selected Northern states before and during the Civil War. In addition, Mboma discusses African American's little known criminal justice appointments in the plantation regimes, their military police work,...

"Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...

It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and MIssourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For teh 250 Union soldiers facing down Rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman's farm in Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised...

"George Scott peered at the nearby Union fortress. Something miraculous was taking place! Three enslaved men had entered but had not been cast out. To Scott, the fortress must be a sanctuary. A place where the three would be safe from capture and harm--never to return to the Confederate South. But exactly why were they granted refuge? Scott left the woods where he had been hiding and joined others in line to enter the fortress. Once inside, his knowledge...

Provides deeply researched information on the black Americans who served in the U.S. Army and the combat history/battle participation of all black troops (including the two infantry divisions, supporting organizations of the Services of Supply, and the special troops) as well as nearly 300 detailed color and war-era photographs of these men.

Presentation of the little-known story of the American Revolution told from the perspectives of the African-American slaves who fought on the side of the British Royal Army in exchange for a promise of freedom.