Foreword: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, by Hal M. Friedman
Introduction: Recovering the Scions of Jericho: America’s Wars,
Black Veterans’ Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century
American History, by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.
Chapter 1: “We Never Get to Be Men:” Big Bill Broonzy, Black
Consciousness, and WWI’s Returning Black Veterans, by Kevin
Greene
Chapter 2: “Frames Refocused: Blinded Black and White Ex-GIs and
the Social Re-Orientation of Self in World War Two America,” by
Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.
Chapter 3: “Have Gun, Will Travel: The Deacons for Defense and
Justice, Armed Self Defense and the Long Black Power Movement,” by
Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton
Chapter 4: “The Military No More: Vietnam, Civil Rights, and
Attitudes Toward Change,” by Jeremy P. Maxwell
Chapter 5: “African American Leadership’s Tug of War with Black
Military Service Members: Rhetorical Situation Strategies in the
Face of the Persian Gulf War,” by Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas
Afterword: How to Place These Fine Essays into Larger Contexts, by
Peter Karsten
Robert F. Jefferson Jr. is associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
Robert F. Jefferson Jr.’s Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil
Rights in Twentieth-Century America: Closing Ranks is a crucial
contribution to a more nuanced understanding of the dynamic,
contested, and sometimes uneven relationship between military
service and civil rights. In this fine volume, Jefferson assembles
an impressive collection of insightful essays by a diverse range of
accomplished scholars. The result is a concise and cogent analysis
of how black veterans have grappled with their military service and
leveraged it in the broader struggle for civil rights. This
noteworthy anthology should be required reading for anyone seeking
to understand the vital linkages between military service, black
veterans, and civil rights in American society during the twentieth
century. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will benefit
from reading it.
*William A. Taylor, Angelo State University*
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