Charles Fuller’s The Brownsville Raid (1976) delves into a 1906 event that led to the dishonorable discharge of 167 African American soldiers from the 25th Infantry.

Fuller’s Zooman and the Sign (1980) centers on the pursuit of justice after a young girl’s death, with no one in the black community willing to identify the murderer.

Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (1993), edited by Phillip McGuire, offers an authentic perspective from African American soldiers.

The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II by Mary Motley (1987) presents a collection of interviews with black officers and enlisted men who served during the war.

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (1992) by Lou Potter, William Miles, and Nina Rosenblum recounts the experiences of African American soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Lambach. This work is based on a PBS documentary and is available as a 90-minute video from Direct Cinema Limited in Santa Monica, CA.

Hondon B. Hargrove’s Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II (1985) narrates the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II.