Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781469262581 (1469262584)
Publish date: January 22nd 2013
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Edition language: English
2/5/14 ** One measure of good non-fiction is a well-researched story that helps the reader learn new aspects of a tale while also helping the reader integrate information s/he might already have known. I was fascinated to learn of how African-Americans have been systematically excluded from histor...
The story of the black paratroopers of WWII explained how heavily prejudiced the US military was. Being allowed to serve your country but not allowed to share the same restaurants as whites. The stories of these men share a unique part of history I didn't know existed. Not the most fast-paced non-fi...