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For much of the nation's history, the participation of blacks in the armed forces was approximately in line with their proportion in the total population. This

Surveys the history of blacks in the armed forces from the 1600s to the 1980s.

From 1898 onward, the expansion of American militarism and empire abroad increasingly relied on black labor, even as policy remained inflected both by scientifi

In Segregated Soldiers, Marcus S. Cox investigates military training programs at historically black colleges and universities and demonstrates their importance

Many black soldiers serving in the U.S. Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their will