Morehouse, Fighting In The Jim Crow Army - Black Men And Women Remember World War II

Abstract

Most historians who study World War II have focused on Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." This was especially true with the popular HBO series, Band of Brothers. Anyone watching the program should have noticed the absence of African Americans in the film, but many might not realize that the U.S. Army was segregated. Few historians have come forward to correct that historical injustice; however, Maggi Morehouse has done her part to rectify that glaring deficiency in the historiography of World War II with her book Fighting in the Jim Crow Army, an account of the two all African-American combat divisions, the 92^nd and 93^rd during the war.