02953cam a2200385 4500 231980488 TxAuBib 20150601120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780763668204 0763668206 B00ARJQVAC Amazon ab24e3c4-7de6-46ea-9606-600778c390d5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1191452 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage Has No Color [Libby eBook] : The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers. Candlewick Press, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 19MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. prejudice. racism. HTML:<p>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?</p> <p>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."</p>. African American Nonfiction. Young Adult Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Notable Children's Books. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-01 20:00:02. http://www.ntexlibrariesonthego.org/ContentDetails.htm?ID=ab24e3c4-7de6-46ea-9606-600778c390d5 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB24E3C4-7DE6-46EA-9606-600778C390D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB24E3C4-7DE6-46EA-9606-600778C390D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=AB24E3C4-7DE6-46EA-9606-600778C390D5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR