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 activis...
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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 activis...
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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781469602295
  • Publication Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM