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Mary L.Brady, Ph. D
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Note: The virtue of courage was long denied via the customs of American journalists and historians in any mentioning or writing about Black men. Review any movies or books published before the 1960s, and the one word never used to describe any Black man was "courage" ... that classical scholars hold as the most important of all the virtues. Note: The research and publication of "Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation" was initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense because of the widespread belief in the military and general public (including scholars, teachers and students) that African-Americans contributed little or nothing in past years to the establishment and security of America. The research, publication and distribution was deemed necessary by General officers of African heritage in the post-Vietnam era, ... upon realizing the contributions of hundreds of thousands of African-American men in the American armed forces were routinely denigrated by artists and writers on relative topics. Television news stories from Vietnam, by reporters such as Ed Bradley, who had deliberately avoided induction, ... offered a very unflattering picture of African-Americans who did volunteer or accept induction. Bradley and his CBS bosses utterly ignored existence of the many thousands of Black officers in America's first totally integrated war effort. And, they type caste Black men as inferior. One does not have to be a psychologist to be suspicious of attitudes by men who deliberately seek to judge and portray other men as cowards, ignorant, stupid, weaklings, etc. in activities they themselves were afraid or unable to do. It was recognized early on by scholars from Howard University and other sources in the project that most American artists, scholars, politicians and other persons of influence in the society, ... had absolutely no idea (or desire) that Black men and women served honorably (on both sides) in not only the Revolutionary War but also all the wars before and after it. And, to tell the story in such a manner as to foster respect among scholars, it had to offer facts and figures from Defense Department records and the National Archives. [MLB] Note: The excerpts that follow were the first 16 pages extracted from the full publication (187 pages). Our purpose is to help provide additional background information on William Lee. [MLB] |
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