The Employment of Negro Troops is a book by Ulysses Lee about the service of African Americans in World War II. Lee wrote his 1953 dissertation at the University of Chicago on the subject.[1] His book on the subject by the same title was published in 1966 by the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. in 1966.[2][3] Lee served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Major and served as a military historian.[2]
The War Department delayed publication of the book.[4] The Employment of Negro Troops was largely written between 1947 and 1951 but not published (in somewhat altered/edited form) until a decade later.[5] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers."[6]
The University Press of the Pacific republished the book in 2004 calling it a landmark study.[7]
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- ^ Lee, Ulysses (1953). The Employment of Negro Troops (Thesis).
- ^ a b Quarles, Benjamin (January 1967). "Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops". The Journal of Negro History. 52 (1): 65–66. doi:10.2307/2716601. JSTOR 2716601.
- ^ Lee, Ulysses; History, United States Dept of the Army Office of Military (November 27, 1966). "The Employment of Negro Troops". Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Employment of Negro Troops. By Ulysses Lee. [U. S. Army in World War II: Special Studies, Number 8.] (Washington, D. C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army. 1966. Pp. xix, 740. $7.75.)". The American Historical Review. April 1967. doi:10.1086/ahr/72.3.1121.
- ^ Lee, Ulysses (1963). "Special Studies THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRO TROOPS" (PDF). U.S. Army Center of Military History. p. viii.
- ^ Kirsch, Robert R (20 September 1966). "The Book Report: The Negro in War". The Los Angeles Times. p. 59.
- ^ Lee, Ulysses (2004). The Employment of Negro Troops. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 978-1-4102-1496-6.