AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN MILITARY HISTORY

VIETNAM WAR

Goff, Stanley and Sanders Robert. Brothers, Black Soldiers in the Nam. Novato, CA, Presidio Press, 1982. 201 p.
Doc. call no.: 959.70438 G612b

Parks, David. GI Diary. New York, Harper & Row, 1968. 133 p.
Book call no.: 959.7 P252g

Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. New York, Random House, 1984. 311 p.
Book call no.: 959.7043 B655

Vance, Samuel. The Courageous and the Proud. New York, W.W. Norton, 1970. 166 p.
Book call no.: 959.7 V222c

A Vietnam Reader, edited by Walter Capps. New York, Routledge, 1991. 318 p.
Black Soldiers' Perspectives on the War, by Gerald Gill, pp 173-185.
Book call no.: 959.7043 V6668

The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research, edited by James S. Olson. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1993. 516 p.
Blacks and the Vietnam War, by Ernest M. B. Obadele-Starks and Amilcar Shabazz, pp 319-334.
Book call no.: 959.704 V6664

Wasted Men: The Reality of the Vietnam Veteran. Edwardsville, IL, Southern Illinois University Foundation, 1972. 1 v (various pagings).
Chapter 9: The Black Veteran, pp IX-1 - IX-2.
Book call no.: 362.86 W323

Westheider, James E. Fighting on Two Fronts : African Americans and the Vietnam War. New York, New York University Press, 1997. 238 p.
Book call no.: 959.7043 W529f

Foster, John W. Did Blacks Suffer More Deaths than Whites in Vietnam?. Maxwell AFB, AL, Air Command and Staff College, 1987. 20 p.
Doc. call no.: M-U 43122 F7552d

Coleman, Ronald O. Personality: Captain Riley Pitts. Vietnam 11:16+ June 1998 1986.

Friederich, Rudolf J.. Medal of Honor for 21 Black Vietnam Heroes. Crisis 81: 227-228 August-September 1974 .

Haynes, Karima A. Sisters-In-Arms. Ebony 49:118-122 March 1994.
Several black women veterans describe their feelings following the dedication of a memorial honoring women Vietnam veterans.

Martin, Thad. The Black Vietnam Vet: Still Looking for Respect. Ebony 41:122-124+ April 1986.

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