This book describes the careers of black Americans in the armed forces from the Revolution through the Vietnam War.

This book is a revision, with greatly expanded inclusion criteria, of the 1993 African American Generals and Flag Officers: Biographies of Over 120 Blacks in the United States ...

Throughout much of the United States's history

Covers every war fought by the U.S. Includes: both men and women, black recipients of the medals of honor, black military role models, graduates of the military service ...