The Employment of Negro Troops (Paperback) (United States Army in World War II) - Softcover

Ulysses Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 016042951X ISBN 13: 9780160429514

Publisher: Department of the Army, 2008

Synopsis

NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list priceThe volume opens with background chapters recalling the experience of Negroes in the Army in World War I, the position of Negroes in the Army between wars, and Army planning for their use in another great war, aw well as the clash of public and private views over employment of Negroes as soldiers. It continues with chapters on the particular problems associated with absorbing large numbers of Negroes into the Army – the provision of physical fitness for service, morale factors influencing their eagerness to serve, and the disorders that attracted so much attention to the problems of their service. The concluding eight chapters are concerned principally with the employment of Negro soldiers overseas, in ground and air combat units and in service units.RelatedOther products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be foundMinorities, Cultures & Languages resources collection can be found

About this title

From the Publisher

Ulysses Lee’s "The Employment of Negro Troops" has been long and widely recognized as a standard work on the subject. Although revised and consolidated before publication, the study was written largely between 1947 and 1951. If the now much-cited title has an echo of an earlier period, that very echo testifies to the book’s rather remarkable twofold achievement; that Lee wrote it when he did, well before the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and that is reputation–or authority and objectivity–has endured so well.

This is a landmark study in military and social history. As a key source for understanding the integration of the Army, Dr. Lee’s work eminently deserves a continuing readership.

About the Author

Ulysses Lee, now Professor of English at Morgan State College, Baltimore, was a member of the Office of the Chief of Military History from 1946 to 1952, concluding a decade of active Army officer service in ranks from first lieutenant to major. In World War II he served as an Education Officer and Editorial Analyst in the field and in the headquarters of Army Service Forces; for seven years thereafter he was the military history specialist on Negroes in the Army and prepared this volume.  

A graduate of Howard University, Dr. Lee taught at Lincoln University,Pennsylvania, and attended the University of Chicago as a Rosenwald Fellow between 1936 and his entry into military service in 1942. He received his doctorate in the history of culture from the University of Chicago in 1953, and from then until going to Morgan in 1956 he taught at Lincoln University, Missouri. Co-editor of The Negro Caravan, an anthology of writings by American Negroes published in 1941, he was author-editor of the Army Service Forces manual, Leadership and the Negro Soldier, published in 1944, and has been the author of many reviews and articles published before and since. Dr. Lee has also been associate editor of The Midwest Journal of the College Language Association and a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Negro History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Department of the Army
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 016042951X
• ISBN 13: 9780160429514
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700