Explain the contributions of Black American soldiers during the fight for Bastogne, Dec. 1944.?
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200411/ai_n9464532
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/910/The_KansasNebraska_Act_passed\nhttp://www.mtlakes.org/ld/news/openpage/classprojects/Civil_War/kannebact.htm\nhttp://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dkansas%2Bnebraska%2Bact%26sm%3DYahoo%2521%2BSearch%26fr%3DFP-tab-img-t%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3D%26ei%3DUTF-8&w=275&h=295&imgurl=www.east-buc.k12.ia.us%2F99_00%2FCW%2Fkls%2Fkls4.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.east-buc.k12.ia.us%2F99_00%2FCW%2Fkls%2Fkls1.htm&size=14.7kB&name=kls4.jpg&p=kansas+nebraska+act&type=jpeg&no=13&tt=161&ei=UTF-8\n\nTry these
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The journey was many days to months, it finally ended in Canada. At least thats what I was taught. Try going to African-American History.com  The answers you need may be there!!\n\nGood Luck!!
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January 2, Washington forwards to governor Nicholas Cooke a letter from General James Varnum advising him that Rhode Island's troop quota should be completed with blacks. Washington urges Cooke to give the recruiting officers every assistance. In February, the Rhode Island legislature approves the action. Enlisted slaves will receive their freedom in return for their service. The resulting black regiment, commanded by white Quaker Christopher Greene, has its first engagement at the battle of Rhode Island (or, Newport) July 29-August 31, where it holds off two Hessian regiments. The regiment also fights at the battle of Yorktown. Slaves enlisted in the Continental Army typically receive a subsistence, their freedom, and a cash payment at the end of the war. Slaves and free blacks rarely receive regular pay or land bounties. In 1777, the New Jersey militia act allows for the recruitment of free blacks but not slaves, as does Maryland's legislature in 1781. On March 20, 1781, New York authorizes the enlistment of slaves in militia units, for which they receive their freedom at the end of the war. Virginia rejects James Madison's arguments for enlisting slaves in addition to free blacks, but many enlist anyway, presenting themselves for freedom after the war.\n\nJanuary 7 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France.
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To me, it signifies racism. It signifies ongoing support of the Southern Confederacy and the way of life for which they chose to fight, that of plantations living off the backs of slaves. It feels to me like the person flying it is sending the message that they still support the south (in reference to the Civil War, not just fond feelings of home...)and wish that the south would have won the war so that slavery could continue.  It signifies a smoldering resentment that AfroAmericans are now free to mingle in society. I'm sure plenty others will disagree, but that's what it signifies to me. By the way, I am white, if that affects how you interpret my response.
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"Joseph Ranger, a free man of color who enlisted in Virginia's navy in 1776, served on four ships during the American Revolution. He, like many other African Americans, devoted his life to the United States, only to be thrust into the most dangerous situations by the same organization he was so readily willing to defend. Most of the blacks who served in the Revolutionary navy were, for the most part, orderlies or ordinary seamen. A few fortunate African Americans were able to work their way up to pilots, but this was extremely rare."\n\nhttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1157/is_n1_v61/ai_20787857
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GEN. Stormin "Norman Schwarzkopf"! Or any of the veterans you can interview at your local V.A Center or retirement home. They are all historically significant, and have fascinating stories to tell :) Good luck
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http://www.google.com/url?q=http://scholar.google.com/scholar%3Fq%3Dfirst+Black+men+to+be+known+as+The+Generals+President+in+the+USA%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26oi%3Dscholart&sa=X&oi=scholar&ct=title
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Seeing how 85% of the ground combat troops are white and that the same percentage killed in action are white I'd say know.  It is a common myth began during the 1960's that minorities were the most likely to be drafted and sent to combat.  It was not true then and even less so now.
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You'll have to do this homework assignment yourself. But you can get started by reading:\n\nhttp://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_civil_rights_movement
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GBA Army 173 rd Abn, Viet Nam; 2 Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star.\nIt used to be do what you were told but after Robert McNamara admitted he and the President knew the war was not win able but still sent us to get killed, it is now do what is right.  That sure is not fight a war on behalf of the rich!\nCertainly the right wing paint us a nation of freedom fighters when in reality we have become a Army of mercenaries.\nNo, it is not a special day, it is another excuse for big business to use us again!  I hide out and speak to a few friends.\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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So they are doing something to benefit their country.  And it really wasn't "work or fight" it was fight or be sent to prison once the draft was put into action.
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African americans were used as soldiers in the war. Even though they were helping in the war many americans on the same side disliked them because they were considered racially inferior to be fighting with the whites. During the war many African Americans were ordered to be infront so that if something happened, they would be killed first will coward escapaded if something went wrong. After the war these African Americans were forgotten and lots of award went to the white. In this war the Native American's population decreased and they were more noticed.
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The Marines are the only fighting unit we have left.  Though I was in the Army I was in charge of two Marine platoons at Fort Lee and was impressed, hell no I was in awe!  A Afro American who was either a civilian or a member of the Army asked  another Afro American (Marine) how many brothers were in his company ending it with brother.  The Marine said we don't have any blacks and I am not your damn brother, they are motioning to a gaggle of Marines who could have been a poster for the UN, (white, yellow, brown).  The questioner looked as if someone slapped him silly I know as I looked the same.  It was so hot we went to a heat warning to unblouse our boots and walk not run or march.  They ran for three blocks before I caught them.  The mess Sergeant told the E-1 and 2's they could only have one glass of milk and the gunny ripped the screen door off and chased him down the street. A Army company marched through a Stop sign  and even though we had right-away I ordered a halt and they halted but when the Army marched by the Marines beat the shit out of them.  When the MPs came I told them my version which made the Marine adopt me.  No, not brained washed TRAINED and Motivated.  That is why they get more kills with less casualties.  Airborne!!\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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Here are a few links for you, including maps and photos. Good luck with your research.\n\nI am adding 2 additional links for you. The first is an e-book written by General Bernard Rogers that details the Operation including troop placements. The tough part is that it does not go as low as company level, but if you keep in mind that the Black Lions were part of the 1st Inf Div, you should get a pretty good idea of where they were. Also, A Co 1/28 has an operational veterans organization and have scheduled a reunion in St. Louis in 2007. I am linking their contact page which includes their president. I am fairly confidant that he would be more than glad to give you a first person account of A Co, 1/28 during this operation. Hope this helps.
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============================================================\nJohn Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured.\n\nJohn Brown was born into a deeply religious family in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. Led by a father who was vehemently opposed to slavery, the family moved to northern Ohio when John was five, to a district that would become known for its antislavery views.\n\nDuring his first fifty years, Brown moved about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and taking along his ever-growing family. (He would father twenty children.) Working at various times as a farmer, wool merchant, tanner, and land speculator, he never was finacially successful -- he even filed for bankruptcy when in his forties. His lack of funds, however, did not keep him from supporting causes he believed in. He helped finance the publication of David Walker's Appeal and Henry Highland's "Call to Rebellion" speech. He gave land to fugitive slaves. He and his wife agreed to raise a black youth as one of their own. He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers. \n\nIn 1847 Frederick Douglass met Brown for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts. Of the meeting Douglass stated that, "though a white gentleman, [Brown] is in sympathy a black man, and as deeply interested in our cause, as though his own soul had been pierced with the iron of slavery." It was at this meeting that Brown first outlined his plan to Douglass to lead a war to free slaves.\n\nBrown moved to the black community of North Elba, New York, in 1849. The community had been established thanks to the philanthropy of Gerrit Smith, who donated tracts of at least 50 acres to black families willing to clear and farm the land. Brown, knowing that many of the families were finding life in this isolated area difficult, offered to establish his own farm there as well, in order to lead the blacks by his example and to act as a "kind father to them." \n\nDespite his contributions to the antislavery cause, Brown did not emerge as a figure of major significance until 1855 after he followed five of his sons to the Kansas territory. There, he became the leader of antislavery guerillas and fought a proslavery attack against the antislavery town of Lawrence. The following year, in retribution for another attack, Brown went to a proslavery town and brutally killed five of its settlers. Brown and his sons would continue to fight in the territory and in Missouri for the rest of the year.\n\nBrown returned to the east and began to think more seriously about his plan for a war in Virginia against slavery. He sought money to fund an "army" he would lead. On October 16, 1859, he set his plan to action when he and 21 other men -- 5 blacks and 16 whites -- raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.\n\nBrown was wounded and quickly captured, and moved to Charlestown, Virginia, where he was tried and convicted of treason, Before hearing his sentence, Brown was allowed make an address to the court. \n\n\n\n. . . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,
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Try here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War