Charles Fuller's The Brownsville Raid (1976) examines a 1906 incident that resulted in the dishonorable discharge of 167 black soldiers from the 25th Infantry.

Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign (1980) is about the quest for justice after a young girl dies and no one in the black community will identify the killer.

Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (1993), edited by Phillip McGuire, provides an authentic voice from black soldiers.

The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II, by Mary Motley (1987), consists of a series of interviews with black officers and enlisted men who served in the military.

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992) by Lou Potter, William Miles, and Nina Rosenblum, relates the experiences of black soldiers who liberated concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Lambach. This book...