"24th Infantrymen plotting defensive positions" during the Bougainville counterattack, March 1944, photograph published on page 503 of The Employment of Negro Troops

The Employment of Negro Troops is a book by Ulysses Lee about the service of African Americans in World War II. Lee wrote his 1953 dissertation at the University of Chicago on the subject.[1] His book on the subject by the same title was published in 1966 by the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. in 1966.[2][3] Lee served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Major and served as a military historian.[2]

The War Department delayed publication of the book.[4] The Employment of Negro Troops was largely written between 1947 and 1951 but not published (in somewhat altered/edited form) until a decade later.[5] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers."[6]

The University Press of the Pacific republished the book in 2004 calling it a landmark study.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ "THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRO TROOPS - ProQuest". www.proquest.com.
  2. 1 2 "Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops. | The Journal of Negro History: Vol 52, No 1". doi:10.2307/2716601. JSTOR 2716601.
  3. ↑ Lee, Ulysses; History, United States Dept of the Army Office of Military (November 27, 1966). "The Employment of Negro Troops". Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "The Employment of Negro Troops. By Ulysses Lee. [U. S. Army in World War II: Special Studies, Number 8.] (Washington, D. C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army. 1966. Pp. xix, 740. $7.75.)". The American Historical Review. April 1967. doi:10.1086/ahr/72.3.1121. ISSN 1937-5239.
  5. ↑ Lee, Ulysses (1963). "Special Studies THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRO TROOPS" (PDF). U.S. Army Center of Military History. p. viii.
  6. ↑ "'The Book Report: The Negro in War,' The Los Angeles Times". Newspapers.com. 20 Sep 1966. p. 59. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  7. ↑ Lee, Ulysses (July 27, 2004). The Employment of Negro Troops. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 9781410214966 – via Google Books.
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