TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Kimberley L.
TI  - War! what is it good for?: Black freedom struggles and the U.S. military from World War II to Iraq 
T2  - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
SN  - 9780807835029 (alk. paper)
AV  - UB418.A47 P45 2012
U1  - 355.0089/96073 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - War and society
KW  - Armed Forces
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-337) and index; Where are the Negro soldiers? The Double V Campaign and the segregated military -- Jim Crow shock and the second front, 1945-1950 -- Glory on the battlefield: the Korean war, Cold War civil rights, and the paradox of Black military service -- Did the battlefield kill Jim Crow? Black freedom struggles, the Korean War, and the Cold War military -- Machine gun blues: Black America and the Vietnam War -- Sing no more of war: Black freedom struggles and antiwar activism, 1960-1973 -- An epilogue about the United States and wars in medias res. Live from the front lines: military policy and soldiers' rap from Iraq
ER  -