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Men of color to arms! : Black soldiers, Indian wars, and the quest for equality
Title:
Men of color to arms! : Black soldiers, Indian wars, and the quest for equality
Author:
Leonard, Elizabeth D.
Personal Author:
Leonard, Elizabeth D.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
xviii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Wanted : Black men for federal army service -- Black soldiers go west -- Doing the nation's work on the western frontier -- National progress, race thinking, and taking on West Point -- Insult and injury -- Struggling for citizenship in the 1890s.
Corporate Subject:
United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century.
Subject Term:
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century.

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895 -- Participation, African American.

African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
Geographic Term:
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780393060393
Format :
Book

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