The Way Things Occur: Operation Castaña-the Urgency of Oral History -- Together We Win -- Homefront Heroes: Rosie the Riveter, Betty Crocker, and the Real Women of War -- Los Medalleros (Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients) Tejanos -- From Mexico to the Magic Valley -- Boxer, Sailor, and Husband -- Company K and the Machine Gun Man -- After the War: What Cannot Be Forgotten -- Keeping a Promesa -- Always a Soldier: When the Trumpet Blew.
Summary:
"This study provides a biography of Jose M. Lopez, who earned the US Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. The author examines how he returned to segregation and discrimination in the United States and how court decisions, civil rights legislation, and veterans' organizations became part of the postwar US political agenda"-- Provided by publisher.
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