Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers

Resource Information

The work Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers

Title remainder

the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first Black paratroopers

Statement of responsibility

Tanya Lee Stone

Creator

• Stone, Tanya Lee

Contributor

• cloudLibrary

Subject

• 555th Parachute Infantry Association -- Juvenile literature
• African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century
• African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964 -- Juvenile literature
• Electronic books
• Race discrimination -- United States
• Race discrimination -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• United States, Army -- African American troops | History -- 20th century
• United States, Army -- African American troops | History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
• United States, Army -- Parachute troops | History -- 20th century
• 555th Parachute Infantry Association
• United States, Army | Parachute Infantry Battalion, 555th -- History
• United States, Army | Parachute Infantry Battalion, 555th -- History -- Juvenile literature
• World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
• World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Juvenile literature
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Juvenile literature
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- Juvenile literature
• United States, Army -- Parachute troops | History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

They became America?s first black paratroopers. Why was their story never told? Sibert Medalist Tanya Lee Stone reveals the history of the Triple Nickles during World War II. World War II is raging, and thousands of American soldiers are fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans plays out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men are segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris?s men serve as guards at The Parachute School, while the white soldiers prepare to be paratroopers. Morris knows that for his men to be treated like soldiers, they have to train and act like them, but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men as well as their passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the history of the Triple Nickles, America?s first black paratroopers, who fought in a little-known attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability."

Cataloging source

MnSpTMCL

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries