The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military
- ISBN-10
- 1608196224
- ISBN-13
- 9781608196227
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-25
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Authors
- Jr., Rawn James
Description
The century-long struggle to achieve equality for America's black soldiers and sailors, in a stirring narrative history by the author of Root and Branch
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