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Download or read book Lasting Valor written by Vernon J. Baker and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purple Heart and Medal of Honor winner Vernon J. Baker eloquently portrays the hell of war in "Lasting Valor", from serving in a segregated Army to watching his men being killed by enemy fire. This bittersweet chronicle tells how Baker was orphaned at age four, and raised by his grandparents in the nearly all-white town of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Filled with unexpected humor and moving insights, this book is a story about love, heartbreak, racism and rediscovery, and most of all, honor and dignity.
Download or read book Immortal Valor written by Robert Child and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the seven African American soldiers ultimately awarded the World War II Medal of Honor, and the 50-year campaign to deny them their recognition. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades. But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valor performed by black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machineguns, an observation post, and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearhead his tank unit's advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Meanwhile Lieutenant Charles Thomas led his platoon to capture a strategically vital village on the Siegfried Line in 1944 despite losing half his men and suffering a number of wounds himself. Ultimately, in 1993 a US Army commission determined that seven men, including Baker, Rivers and Thomas, had been denied the Army's highest award simply due to racial discrimination. In 1997, more than 50 years after the war, President Clinton finally awarded the Medal of Honor to these seven heroes, sadly all but one of them posthumously. These are their stories.
Book Synopsis Brothers in Valor by : Robert F. Jefferson, Jr.
Download or read book Brothers in Valor written by Robert F. Jefferson, Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry to see and led the way to the parapet to plant the colors. After Col. Robert Gould Shaw was mortally wounded, Carney inspired his infantry forward. Even after sustaining severe wounds, Carney proudly declared, “Boys, the old flag never touched the ground!” After this battle, Carney became the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor. Since the American Civil War, scores of African Americans have served with great distinction. Through thousands of historical accounts, photographs, and documentary evidence, Robert Jefferson introduces the 89 black soldiers who continued forward when all odds were against them. The heroes within these pages faced certain death and definite danger without flinching. Jefferson paints a vivid portrait of African-American soldiers who carried the flag of freedom and how they reshaped the very definition of courage under fire during some of the most harrowing moments in United States military history. In turn, their courage and determination left an indelible mark on the American portrait.
Book Synopsis Knocking Down Barriers by : Truman K. Gibson, Jr.
Download or read book Knocking Down Barriers written by Truman K. Gibson, Jr. and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence Recipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Knocking Down Barriers is the memoir of a life spent making a difference. In 1940, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington was like a southern city in its seemingly unalterable segregation and oppressive summer heat. Gibson had no illusions about the nation’s racism, but as a Chicagoan who’d enjoyed the best of the vibrant Black culture of prewar America, he was shocked to find the worst of the Jim Crow South in the capital. What Gibson accomplished as an advocate for African American soldiers—first as a lawyer working for the secretary of war, then as a member of Harry S. Truman’s “Black cabinet”—fueled the struggle for civil rights in the American military. A University of Chicago Law School graduate, Gibson took his fight for racial justice to the corridors of power, arguing against restrictive real estate covenants before the US Supreme Court, opposing such iconic military figures as Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall to demand the integration of the armed forces, and challenging white control of professional sports by creating a boxing empire that made television history. Filled with firsthand details and little-known stories about key advancements in race relations in the worlds of law, the military, sports, and entertainment, Gibson’s memoir is also an engaging recollection of encounters with the likes of Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Patton, Jackie Robinson, and Joe Louis. Winner of the 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence, Knocking Down Barriers illuminates social milestones that continue to shape race in the United States today.
Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Sky written by Renee Alexis and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a photojournalist is sent to Gallup, New Mexico, to do a story on the Intertribal Ceremonial Powwow, she unexpectedly finds love with a Native American jeweler. Original.
Book Synopsis Blame It on Paradise by : Crystal Hubbard
Download or read book Blame It on Paradise written by Crystal Hubbard and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing comes between Jackson DeVoy and his briefs--his legal briefs, that is--until the ace attorney is sent to Darwin Island to secure the rights to a "miracle" weight-loss aid from the island's enigmatic benefactor, JT Marchand. The last person the money-driven workaholic expects to find is Lina, an ebony goddess who seduces him on his first night. Forced to return to Boston without saying goodbye, Jack leaves Darwin convinced that his hasty exit is for the best. Never mind that he feels like he's leaving behind true love and not just a lover. Lina turns up in Boston, her unexpected reunion with Jack generating a heat that makes it easy to forget feelings of abandonment and deception. Once she's in Jack's world, Lina finds herself falling in love with clam chowder, Sam Adams lager, and a man who's convinced that money is the only thing worth living for. But when Lina awakens Jack's longing for things money just can't buy, he has to decide which means more to him: his wallet or his heart.
Book Synopsis When a Man Loves a Woman by : LaConnie Taylor-Jones
Download or read book When a Man Loves a Woman written by LaConnie Taylor-Jones and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing administrator Victoria Bennett has soured on love. She has sworn off men; they bring too much drama and too much pain into her life. That is, until she meets pediatrician A.J. Baptiste, a single parent who is determined to woo her. A.J. will stop at nothing to have her, and Victoria finds her resolve put to the test . . . but is this a fight she really wants to win?
Download or read book Six O'clock written by Katrina Spencer and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An African-American woman who lacks the desirable curves of her culture struggles to find love, and herself, in this compelling urban tale from a fresh new voice. Original.
Download or read book Shades of Desire written by Monica White and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bank executive Jasmine finds the man of her dreams in Jeremy, except for one thing--he is white, and she is African American--which makes them both targets for people of either race who disapprove of interracial romances. Reprint.
Download or read book Anything But Love written by Celya Bowers and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Kendall Matthews channels all of her energy into her job, and she wants nothing to do with love. Her world is soon turned upside-down when she's reunited with her childhood crush in the emergency room. Original.
Download or read book Love's Secrets written by Yolande McVey and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recent divorce rediscovers passion with a sworn bachelor, who then throws her world into a tailspin with his secrets and deceits. Original.
Book Synopsis Three Chords, One Song by : Beatrice M. Hogg
Download or read book Three Chords, One Song written by Beatrice M. Hogg and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of their rock star father from a drug overdose, three very different sisters are forced together to decide what to do with their inheritance. But who was Mik DeSalle? Even though they share blood, they did not have the same father – Evelyn Shelton's father was Richard Shelton, a young man from Pittsburgh's working class who had a dream; Lucille Williams' father was Mik DeSalle, the famous guitarist with Sheffield Steel who left Richard Shelton behind as soon as he left his first family and boarded a plane to Los Angeles; Soleil DeSalle's father was a musician past his prime, slipping into drugs and apathy with his new Hollywood wife. Once the sisters decide to work together, they find that others want to share the wealth for their own selfish reasons. Faith, Soleil's drug addict mother, joins with Brad, Evelyn's exhusband, to get part of the fortune. But Faith doesn't just want money; she wants revenge, especially against Mariah Williams, Lucille's mother and Mik's one true love. But for the sisters to find happiness and peace and to triumph over the obstacles placed in their path, they need to reveal everything to each other. And that includes what really happened to Evelyn's brother Ricky – and what really happened to Mik.
Book Synopsis Blow by Blow by : Keith Thomas Walker
Download or read book Blow by Blow written by Keith Thomas Walker and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanisha Elder thought she found a diamond in the rough. Her sexy boxer beau has nine first-round knock-outs under his belt, and Lonzo put a ring on her finger, promising to never stray as he pursues his championship dreams. But it's hard to keep a roof over their heads in the meantime. Strapped for cash, Lonzo goes to work for a notorious crime boss, and trouble soon follows him to the people he loves. With her and her baby's life in danger, Nisha's not sure if she and Lonzo will make it to the final bell. Things get even more complicated when Nisha's first love returns from the war. Ellis is a handsome and decorated Marine now, and he would love to swoop in and deliver Nisha from the madness she calls life.
Download or read book A Twist of Fate written by Beverly Clark and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting a fertility clinic, a grieving widow trying to conceive by alternative means meets a man who has lost his wife and unborn child. In spite of their tragic backgrounds, they must fight to build something lasting out of their sorrow. Original.
Download or read book The Art of Love written by Celya Bowers and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peri Reed is a survivor. The next time a good looking man crosses her path, she's going to smarter and wiser. However, when a very good-looking man of Irish descent crosses her path, Peri is at a loss. Sure Brendan Donovan is good looking, stable, and is an art director at a prestigious museum in Dallas, Texas, but she's still waiting for the other shoe to drop. With each date, Brendan is wearing down her resistance and Peri finds she's drowning in a sea of love. Brendan knows he has his work cut out for him. Peri is a beautiful woman, scarred but beautiful. Was getting to know this brown- eyed beauty worth all the trouble she was putting him through? Yes, he decides, after the first kiss, Peri was worth getting to know. He just had to convince her that he is nothing like her previous lover. When said lover makes a reappearance, Brendan's protective side comes out and he's ready to protect her at any cost. In that instant Brendan realizes that he wants Peri in his life permanently. He knows it's possible. He'd just have to show her the art of love.
