War! What Is It Good For?
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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 activ...
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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 activ...
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