Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist
Автор:
Roi Ottley, 208 стр., ISBN:
0700618910
When black journalist Vincent a??Roia?? Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light.Already famous as the author of New World A-Cominga??in which he decried the hypocrisy of America fighting for freedom in Europe while denying it to blacks at homea??Ottley was sent to cover the experiences of African American soldiers that neither white journalists nor the American military felt obliged to report. But while his dispatches documented this assignment, his personal diary reveals a different wara??one that included mess hall brawls between Southern white soldiers and their black counterparts, the British publica??s ignorance toward their own black soldiers, and other subtle glimpses of wartime life that never made it into print. That journal remained buried in a collection of Ottleya??s papers at St. Bonaventure University until...
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