American Dream The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China

Name: American Dream The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China
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ISBN: 9781558495951

ISBN-10: 1558495959

ISBN-13: 9781558495951

Edition: 2007

Authors: Clarence Adams, Della Adams, Lewis H. Carlson

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Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning--character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured by the Chinese. After spending almost three years as a POW, during which…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 155
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction




Skippy: The Formative Years



U.S. Army Combat Soldier: Korea



Captured!



Camp 5



Turncoat?



University Days: Beijing and Wuhan



Marriage and Family



The Foreign Languages Press, Africans, and the Vietnam Broadcasts



Going Home!



Recriminations



Bootstrapping to the American Dream


Postscript



Clarence Cecil Adams Time Line


Notes