To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting become a form of political

become a form of political participation and resistance that has socialized and mobilized a new generation of Black youth

leaving their families for long periods of time to labor in the fields

she highlights New York City's greatest successes across all five boroughs

part nature memoir

includes fifty-two illustrations

To Serve My Country, to Serve My Race PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting become a form of politicalThe story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit of African American women to serve overseas While African American men and white women were invited, if belatedly, to serve their country abroad, African American women were excluded for overseas duty throughout most of WWII. However, under political pressure from legislators like Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., the NAACP, the Black press, and even President Roosevelt, the US