African American Military History
A Bibliography From the Collection of Reference
Materials in the Resource Library of the Vietnam Era Museum and Educational Center

The Anderson Platoon (On patrol in Vietnam with African American West Point graduate Lt. Joe Anderson, documentary video, 1987).

Another Brother (The Story of African-American Vietnam Veteran Clarence Fitch, documentary video, 1998).

Black Stars: African American Military Heroes by James Haskins (1998).

Black Protest in the Sixties by John Bracey Jr., August Meier and Elliot Rudwick (1991).

Blacks in America‘s Wars: The Shift in Attitudes from the Revolutionary War to Vietnam by Robert W. Mullen (1973).

Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Blacks Veterans by Wallace Terry (1984).

Buffalo Soldiers:  The 92nd Infantry Division and Reinforcements in WWII, 1942-1945 by Thomas St. John Arnold (1990).

Chappie: America‘s First Black Four Star General - The Life and Times of Daniel James, Jr. by J. Alfred Phelps (1991).

Colin Powell and the American Dream by Judith Cummings and Stefan Rudnicki (1995).

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers (1988).

A Grateful Nation Remembers: The Departments of Defense and Veteran Affairs Honors African-American Veterans of WWII (Documentary video, 1995).

In the Land of Jim Crow: Vietnam - The Dream Shot Down (Documentary video, 1993).

Memphis-Nam-Sweden:  The Story of a Black Deserter  by Terry Whitmore (1997).

My American Journey by Colin Powell with Joseph E. Persico (1990).

The Nation in Turmoil:  Civil Rights and the Vietnam War by Gene Brown (1993).

A Place Called Heartbreak: A Story of Vietnam  by Walter Dean Myers (1993).