The Employment of Negro Troops

The Employment of Negro Troops is a book by Ulysses Lee about the service of African Americans in World War II. Lee wrote his 1953 dissertation at the University of Chicago on the subject.^[1] His book on the subject by the same title was published in 1966 by the Office of the Chief of Military History in Washington D.C. in 1966.^[2][3] Lee served in the U.S. Army attaining the rank of Major and served as a military historian.^[2]

"24th Infantrymen plotting defensive positions" during the Bougainville counterattack, March 1944, photograph published on page 503 of The Employment of Negro Troops

The War Department delayed publication of the book.^[4] The Employment of Negro Troops was largely written between 1947 and 1951 but not published (in somewhat altered/edited form) until a decade later.^[5] Robert R. Kirsch, the Los Angeles Times book editor, called it "incisive and penetrating...takes up the hard questions and does not compromise on the answers."^[6]

The University Press of the Pacific republished the book in 2004 calling it a landmark study.^[7]

See also

• A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865

References

1. Lee, Ulysses (1953). The Employment of Negro Troops (Thesis).
2. Quarles, Benjamin (January 1967). "Ulysses Lee, The Employment of Negro Troops". The Journal of Negro History. 52 (1): 65–66. doi:10.2307/2716601. JSTOR 2716601.
3. Lee, Ulysses; History, United States Dept of the Army Office of Military (November 27, 1966). "The Employment of Negro Troops". Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army – via Google Books.
4. "The Employment of Negro Troops. By Ulysses Lee. [U. S. Army in World War II: Special Studies, Number 8.] (Washington, D. C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army. 1966. Pp. xix, 740. $7.75.)". The American Historical Review. April 1967. doi:10.1086/ahr/72.3.1121.
5. Lee, Ulysses (1963). "Special Studies THE EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRO TROOPS" (PDF). U.S. Army Center of Military History. p. viii.
6. Kirsch, Robert R (20 September 1966). "The Book Report: The Negro in War". The Los Angeles Times. p. 59.
7. Lee, Ulysses (2004). The Employment of Negro Troops. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 978-1-4102-1496-6.