TY - BOOK ID - 135322962 TI - Twice forgotten : African Americans and the Korean War : an oral history PY - 2023 SN - 9798890850386 1469664550 9781469664545 1469664542 9781469664552 9781469664538 1469664534 PB - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Korean War, 1950-1953 KW - African American veterans KW - Participation, African American. KW - African Americans. KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135322962 AB - Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. 'Twice Forgotten' draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the fight, the reality that the military desegregated in fits and starts, and how veterans' service fits into the long history of the Black freedom struggle. This collection of seventy oral histories, drawn from across the country, features interviews conducted by the author and his colleagues for their 2003 American Radio Works documentary, Korea: The Unfinished War, which examines the conflict as experienced by the approximately 600,000 Black men and women who served. ER -