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Courage Has No Color The True Story of the Triple Nickles Americas First Black Paratroopers

by Tanya Lee Stone
Courage Has No Color The True Story of the Triple Nickles Americas First Black Paratroopers

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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."

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What did it take to be a paratrooper in World War II? Specialized training, extreme physical fitness, courage, and -- until the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) was formed -- white skin.
It is 1943. Americans are overseas fighting World War II to help keep the world safe from Adolf Hitler's tyranny, safe from injustice, safe from discrimination. Yet right here at home, people with white skin have rights that people with black skin do not.
What is courage? What is strength? Perhaps it is being ready to fight for your nation even when your nation isn't ready to fight for you.
Front matter includes a foreword by Ashley Bryan. Back matter includes an author's note, an appendix, a time line, source notes, a bibliography, and an index.


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Tanya Lee Stone is the Robert F. Sibert Award-winning author of Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. This new book was seven years in the making, as she did extensive original research and tracked down archival photos. Tanya Lee Stone lives in Vermont.

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venkatraman.padma , February 03, 2013 (view all comments by venkatraman.padma)
Siebert Medallist and established author of several books, Tanya Lee Stone, has written another book worthy of the highest honors and awards. The story of Tuskagee and the bravery of the African Americans who contributed to the war effort was known to me and I am delighted that this book will make their story available to a wider audience. Not just merely "known" to a wider audience, but actually told in a way that is absolutely riveting. Just as her story about the "13 women who dared to dream" read the way the best fiction reads, so does "Courage has no color". Stone does extensive and painstaking research - and this book's depth reveals how much hard work she has done, in addition to displaying her remarkable talent as one of today's foremost nonfiction writers for children and young adults.

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ISBN:
9780763651176
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
01/22/2013
Publisher:
CANDLEWICK PRESS
Series info:
Junior Library Guild Selection
Pages:
147
Height:
.70IN
Width:
9.40IN
Thickness:
.50
Age Range:
10 and up
Grade Range:
5 and up
Illustration:
Yes
Author:
Tanya Lee Stone
Author:
Tanya Lee Stone
Author:
Tanya LeeStone
Subject:
Children s Nonfiction-World History
Subject:
Children s-People and Cultures

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