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03663aam a22005054i 4500 001 3D8D9190534E11E8975A4AF596128E48 003 SILO 005 20180509010013 008 180308t20182018ilua b s001 0deng 010 $a 2017056073 020 $a 0252083334 020 $a 9780252083334 020 $a 0252041712 020 $a 9780252041716 035 $a (OCoLC)1005108651 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SPI $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ma $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a D769.39 $b .B65 2018 082 00 $a 305.48/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Bolzenius, Sandra M., $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Glory in their spirit : $b how four black women took on the Army during World War II / $c Sandra M. Bolzenius. 246 30 $a How four black women took on the Army during World War II 264 1 $a Urbana, IL : $b University of Illinois Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xxii, 208 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a Women, gender, and sexuality in american history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across the country. Indeed, the insurrection, now little remembered, became the most publicized and recorded protest of Black WACs during World War II as story of how four African American women pushed the army's segregation system to its breaking point. Drawing on relevant scholarship, archival work, newspaper responses to the strike, and interviews with the strikers or their families, Sandra Bolzenius shows how the strike at Ft. Devens demonstrates that army regulations prioritized white men, segregated African Americans, highlighted white women's femininity, and overlooked the presence of African American women. In drawing attention to these issues, this book is able to shed light on the experiences and agency of World War II Black WACs who resisted racial discrimination and asserted their entitlements as female military personnel, analyze military policies and their effects on Army personnel, particularly Black WACs, and investigate the Army's determination to maintain the existing social order through the strict segmentation of its troops based on race, gender, and rank."--Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Women's Army Corps $b Women's Army Corps $x History. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Participation, African-American. 650 0 $a Trials (Military offenses) $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Strikes and lockouts $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African American soldiers $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Women soldiers $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination against women $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Women $z United States. 651 0 $a Fort Devens (Mass.) $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213015453.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190129010839.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115005.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180905045725.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D8D9190534E11E8975A4AF596128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search