Douglas Bristol is associate professor of history and a fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom and coeditor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality since World War II.

"Douglas Bristol’s detailed and deeply researched history of African American military labor during World War II shines much-needed light on a crucial, but neglected aspect of the Black experience. On the home front and in every theater of war, African Americans performed much of the labor that not only sustained US military power but which also helped lay the groundwork for the postwar civil rights movement."— Chris Dixon, author of African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945: Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom"The significant contributions of Black Americans in the wars of the United States have too frequently been omitted, deleted, and distorted in the history books. In a new, excellent, revealing study, Bristol demonstrates that ‘Black GIs . . . made themselves indispensable to keeping the American war machine running around the globe,’ and in the process made possible decisive victories in World War II, and in the post-war civil rights movement."— Adrian R. Lewis, author of The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom

Douglas Bristol is associate professor of history and a fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom and coeditor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality since World War II.

"Douglas Bristol’s detailed and deeply researched history of African American military labor during World War II shines much-needed light on a crucial, but neglected aspect of the Black experience. On the home front and in every theater of war, African Americans performed much of the labor that not only sustained US military power but which also helped lay the groundwork for the postwar civil rights movement."— Chris Dixon, author of African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945: Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom"The significant contributions of Black Americans in the wars of the United States have too frequently been omitted, deleted, and distorted in the history books. In a new, excellent, revealing study, Bristol demonstrates that ‘Black GIs . . . made themselves indispensable to keeping the American war machine running around the globe,’ and in the process made possible decisive victories in World War II, and in the post-war civil rights movement."— Adrian R. Lewis, author of The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom

Douglas Bristol is associate professor of history and a fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom and coeditor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality since World War II.

"Douglas Bristol’s detailed and deeply researched history of African American military labor during World War II shines much-needed light on a crucial, but neglected aspect of the Black experience. On the home front and in every theater of war, African Americans performed much of the labor that not only sustained US military power but which also helped lay the groundwork for the postwar civil rights movement."— Chris Dixon, author of African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945: Race, Nationality, and the Fight for Freedom"The significant contributions of Black Americans in the wars of the United States have too frequently been omitted, deleted, and distorted in the history books. In a new, excellent, revealing study, Bristol demonstrates that ‘Black GIs . . . made themselves indispensable to keeping the American war machine running around the globe,’ and in the process made possible decisive victories in World War II, and in the post-war civil rights movement."— Adrian R. Lewis, author of The American Culture of War: The History of U.S. Military Force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom