Holt's comprehensive new historical work, Children of Fire, revisits familiar territory, he does an excellent job of including newer subjects and areas of interest too. Yet Men Of Color to Arms! reveals the triumphs and victories achieved by black soldiers as well as the efforts undertaken on their behalf by whites of good will against vicious and sustained opposition and hatred. They were isolated and often abandoned by their white counterparts after battles and regarded with contempt by the Native Americans, who wondered how blacks could fight alongside people who openly loathed them. Once again, black soldiers found themselves fighting dual sets of enemies. There was another enlistment surge later in the decade, when blacks joined the wars against the Sioux, Apache and other Native American nations. Fleetwood, John Lawson, Thomas Hawkins and Robert Pinn, who distinguished themselves in combat. Instead they often encountered vigorous anger and resentment from whites who saw them as inferior and even responsible for the deaths of their comrades, despite the bravery of soldiers such as Medal of Honor winners Sergeant Major Christian A.
In the period between 18, more than 180,000 African Americans joined the Union Army due to promises of freedom in exchange for service.
Leonard's Men of Color to Arms! looks at black soldiers who defended a nation that hadn't yet fully recognized their humanity. Still, Harlem Is Nowhere is more an inspirational memoir than a retrospective work, and should motivate others who've only heard about Harlem from a distance to inspect it more closely. Rhodes-Pitts includes tales about photographer James Vander Zee, authors Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, and activist Marcus Garvey, among many others. They give her insider details and a scope available only from longtime residents. She encounters knowledgeable, flamboyant types like longtime Harlem resident Julius Bobby Nelson, who seems to know everything that's ever happened there, and neighbors Miss Minnie and Monroe, who quickly become surrogate parents and close confidants.
Her trips include stops at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Lenox Avenue's famous funeral parlor, where many of the Harlem Renaissance's key figures were laid to rest. Rather than crafting a detached, straightforward account, Rhodes-Pitts makes it personal, showing Harlem's impact on her during the time she lived there. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts' enlightening Harlem Is Nowhere takes a new approach in her look at the venerable community. The latest crop of books on black history achieves both goals. Black History Month shines a light on lesser-known topics from our past and has the potential to open new conversations on historical events often taken for granted.
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