An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till-a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective...
African American soldiers
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Author:Wideman, John EdgarSummary: -
Author:Fraser, MichaelSummary:It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the swords raised and lives lost...
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The Don't Ask, Don't Tell law may have been repealed, but what if there are some members of the US armed forces who still have reasons to keep their sexuality a secret? Here are four such stories.
- Author:Grooms, AnthonySummary:
When Walter Burke's army buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class...
