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The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway

2012-11-16 History
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Release : 2012-11-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway by : John Virtue

Download or read book The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway written by John Virtue. This book was released on 2012-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline. Theirs were the first black regiments deployed outside the lower 48 states during the war. The enlisted men, most of them from the South, faced racial discrimination from white officers, were barred from entering any towns for fear they would procreate a "mongrel" race with local women, and endured winter conditions they had never experienced before. Despite this, they won praise for their dedication and their work. Congress in 2005 said that the wartime service of the four regiments covered here contributed to the eventual desegregation of the Armed Forces.

We Fought the Road

2017-10-15 History
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Release : 2017-10-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis We Fought the Road by : Christine McClure

Download or read book We Fought the Road written by Christine McClure. This book was released on 2017-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers. Their task--which required punching through wilderness on a route blocked by the Rocky Mountains and deadly permafrost during the worst winter on record--has been likened to the building of the Panama Canal. Unlike most accounts that focus on the road's military planners, We Fought the Road is boots-on-the-ground and often personal, based in part on letters from the "Three Cent Romance," the successful courtship via mail discovered in the authors' family papers

The 95Th Colored Engineer Regiment

2016-09-06 Fiction
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Release : 2016-09-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The 95Th Colored Engineer Regiment by : Mike Dryden

Download or read book The 95Th Colored Engineer Regiment written by Mike Dryden. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 95th Colored Engineer Regiment is a fictional account of a little-known historical fact; a third of the 10,000 plus US Army troops who built the Alaska-Canada Highway, also known as the Alcan, during WW II were African-Americans from the South. The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, set in motion a project to connect the territory of Alaska to the lower 48 states. The project had been on the drawing board for many years but had been on hold over budget concerns and the route. All of those issues became mute on December 7, 1941. The War Department ordered the Army to begin a road construction project from Dawson Creek, BC Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska. The project began in early 1942 when over 10,000 troops arrived in various locations to commence the 1500 mile road project. A little-known fact is that over a third of the workforce were African-Americans from the rural South. These former tenant farmers would demonstrate to the War Department they could use construction equipment, supervise the workforce and on one important project, the Sikanna Chief River Bridge, outperform the white units. The three Colored Regiments despite having been issued all the hand-me-downs from the white regiments, the worst sections of roads to be built and the least amount of support from the Alaskan Command, performed beyond expectations. The Colored Engineer Regiments were commanded by white officers, and NCOs and exposed to the same racial discrimination they had to endure in the South. But through hard work and dedication, these young men impressed the military leaders. Some historians believe the work of the Colored Engineer Regiments, the Tuskegee Airmen and the 761st Tank Regiment (Black Panthers) were the beginning of the drive to desegregate the Armed Forces by President Harry Truman in 1948.

Black History in the Last Frontier

2020 African Americans
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Release : 2020
Genre : African Americans
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Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Black History in the Last Frontier by : Ian C. Hartman

Download or read book Black History in the Last Frontier written by Ian C. Hartman. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway

2002 History
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Release : 2002
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway by : William E. Griggs

Download or read book The World War II Black Regiment that Built the Alaska Military Highway written by William E. Griggs. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic record of a black regiment's contribution to safeguarding Alaska from Japanese invasion

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