Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Delmont’s work restores these times to our collective memory.”
A vital story well rendered, recounting a legacy that should be recognized, remembered, and applauded.” Publishers Weekly, starred review “The narrative provides important pages that have been missing from American history. Library Journal, starred review “Revelatory…an eloquent and essential corrective to the historical record.” While books have been written on the experiences of individual units and soldiers, this one takes a unique approach, making it one of the best and first truly comprehensive books on the subject. PRAISE FOR HALF AMERICAN “Civil rights expert Delmont has written what is sure to become the standard text on the experience of Black U.S.
In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading. Davis, Jr., leader of the Tuskegee Airmen, who was at the forefront of the years-long fight to open the Air Force to Black pilots Ella Baker, the civil rights leader who advocated on the home front for Black soldiers, veterans, and their families James Thompson, the 26-year-old whose letter to a newspaper laying bare the hypocrisy of fighting against fascism abroad when racism still reigned at home set in motion the Double Victory campaign and poet Langston Hughes, who worked as a war correspondent for the Black press. Their bravery and patriotism in the face of unfathomable racism is both inspiring and galvanizing. Half American is American history as you’ve likely never read it before. In these pages are stories of Black heroes such as Thurgood Marshall, the chief lawyer for the NAACP, who investigated and publicized violence against Black troops and veterans Benjamin O. And yet the stories of these Black veterans have long been ignored, cast aside in favor of the myth of the “Good War” fought by the “Greatest Generation.”
Without their crucial contributions to the war effort, the United States could not have won the war.
Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Available now (order links below) Over one million Black men and women served in World War II.
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