The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II

The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars Black servicemen fought when confronted with the official Army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas. By turns shocking, nightmarish, despairing, bitterly ironic, and, in rare instances, full of laughter, the fifty-five oral histories in The Invisible Soldier add a significant chapter to American history. The interviews disclose the brutality of the unseen wars Black servicemen fought when confronted with the official Army policy of segregation and by attitudes in southern communities, as well as overseas.

• | Author: Mary Penick Motley
• | Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 1987
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0814319610
• | ISBN-13: 9780814319611