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United States--Armed Forces--African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Judie Campbell transcript

 File — Single Folder Collections - 2004 Box 5 (04.0155-04.0183), Folder: 04.0155 - Folder 1
Identifier: 04.0155
Content Description

This collection relates to Judie Campbell who served in the U.S. Army with the 3104 General Quartermasters attached to the 450th Engineers in the European Theater of operations during World War II. This collection contains an oral history transcript where Campbell recounts his experiences in Liverpool, England, and throughout Europe as an African African. Campbell discusses desertion, his experiences being a squad leader, his experiences with European women, other soldiers who fathered children, and his experiences with race and racism.

Dates: Event: 1943-1945; Other: Date accessioned: 2004-06-25

David H. Cole transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2001 Box 18 (01.0445-01.0463), Folder: 01.0455 - Folder 1
Identifier: 01.0455
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of an African American private in the 84th Aviation Squadron during World War II in the European Campaign as he details tensions between black soldiers and white officers.

Dates: Created: 1942-1946; Other: Date acquired: 09/26/2001

Eddie Barrington transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2004 Box 4 (04.0119-04.0154), Folder: 04.0154
Identifier: 04.0154
Scope and Contents

This oral history interview transcript relates to Eddie Barrington who served with C Company in the 823rd Air Aviation Engineers. Barrington was assigned to work on the Ledo Road under General Joseph Stilwell in December 1942 in the China Burma India campaign. The collection includes a transcript of an interview, recorded May 20, 2004 and audio recording. The recording includes portions of the interview that are not transcribed.

Dates: Created: 1920-2004; Other: Majority of material found in 1941-1956; Other: Date acquired: 05/20/2004

Eldridge Williams papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2001 Box 11 (01.0278-01.0305), Folder: 01.0298 - Folder 1
Identifier: 01.0298
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of an oral history interview transcript of a retired African American lieutenant colonel, and one of the Tuskegee Airmen, as he discusses his experiences during WWII and the Korean War.

Dates: Created: 1940-1963; Other: Date acquired: 07/26/2001

Coleridge Augustus Jemmott papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2005 Box 5 (05.0133-05.0148), Folder: 05.0143
Identifier: 05.0143
Scope and Contents

Coleridge Augustus Jemmott was an African American soldier in the United States Army, "I" company, 22nd Quartermaster Regiment. He served in Italy and North Africa as a sergeant, transporting the "Anizio Annie" cannon, from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains photographs and ephemera from Jemmott's war years. There are sixty black-and-white photographs of Jemmott with his unit in North Africa and Italy. There is also a menu from a Casablanca restaurant, Port of Leghorn entry card, newspaper clippings, and a North African Theater uniform patch.

Dates: 1942-1946; Other: Majority of material found within 1943; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2011