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Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles - America's First Black Paratroopers

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Zusatztext 56539098 Informationen zum Autor Tanya Lee Stone  is a former editor and the Robert F. Sibert Award–winning author of  Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream . This new book was seven years in the making, as she did extensive original research and tracked down archival photos. Tanya Lee Stone lives in Vermont. Klappentext They became America's first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging! and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front! the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning! Georgia! First Sergeant Walter Morris's men serve as guards at The Parachute School! while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Morris knows that for his men to be treated like soldiers! they have to train and act like them! but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men as well as their passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles! America's first black paratroopers! who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion! in the words of Morris! "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability." From Courage Has No Color What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized training! extreme physical fitness! courage! and - until the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) was formed - white skin. It is 1943. Americans are overseas fighting World War II to help keep the world safe from Adolf Hitler's tyranny! safe from injustice! safe from discrimination. Yet right here at home! people with white skin have rights that people with black skin do not. What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is being ready to fight for your nation even when your nation isn't ready to fight for you. Front matter includes a foreword by Ashley Bryan. Back matter includes an author's note! an appendix! a time line! source notes! a bibliography! and an index. Zusammenfassung They became America’s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging! and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front! the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning! Georgia! First Sergeant Walter Morris’s men serve as guards at The Parachute School! while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Morris knows that for his men to be treated like soldiers! they have to train and act like them! but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men as well as their passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles! America’s first black paratroopers! who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion! in the words of Morris! “proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability.” From  Courage Has No Color What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized training! extreme physical fitness! courage! and — until the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion...

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Authors Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher Candlewick Press
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 10
Product format Hardback
Released 22.01.2013
 
EAN 9780763651176
ISBN 978-0-7636-5117-6
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 241 mm x 259 mm x 17 mm
Series Junior Library Guild Selection
Junior Library Guild Selection
Subject Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics

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