Fighting in the Jim Crow Army

Maggi M. Morehouse is assistant professor of history and director of the honors program at the University of South Carolina, Aiken. She received her doctorate in African American Studies in 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Illustrates the crucial link between the Second World War and what has sometimes been referred to as the Second Civil War, the black freedom struggle of the 1960s. For what we learn in these pages is that a generation of black men, hundreds of thousands of them, began the most important struggle of our time for equal protection before the laws and for simple human dignity.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgmentsChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 “We’re in the Army Now”Chapter 4 Life on the Military ReservationChapter 5 StatesideChapter 6 The “Good Fight”Chapter 7 Coming HomeChapter 8 EpilogueChapter 9 Methods and Sources