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Tango01 | 17 Feb 2020 10:18 p.m. PST |
… democracy abroad and at home. "Until the 21st century, the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II barely registered in America's collective memory of that war. The "tan soldiers," as the black press affectionately called them, were also for the most part left out of the triumphant narrative of America's "Greatest Generation." In order to tell their story of helping defeat Nazi Germany in my 2010 book, "Breath of Freedom," I had to conduct research in more than 40 different archives in the U.S. and Germany…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
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