Of Black America — Season 1, Episode 2: The Black Soldier
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 7 episodes
Episode synopsis
History of the military role of African-Americans, from the American Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War which was then being fought.
About Of Black America
Of Black America was a series of seven one-hour documentaries presented by CBS News in the summer of 1968, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement and during a time of racial unrest (Martin Luther King had been assassinated that spring and riots in many cities had followed). The groundbreaking[1] series explored various aspects of the history and current state of African-American community.