The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Double Victory oral history collection

Repository: Amistad Research Center

Collection Description (Extant): The collection is twelve videotaped interviews of African American World War II veterans. Also included are interviews with African American members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force from New Orleans. The subjects discuss race relations in the military during the era of segregation.

Date(s): 2001

Existing IDs: 638

Language: English

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African American soldiers
African American veterans
Discrimination in the military
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American

Genres:

Interviews
Photographs
Videorecordings