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African Americans and Military Service

Collections of Black Military Service in the Rubenstein Library

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South

The Behind the Veil Oral History Collection contains over 1,200 interviews with African Americans from 11 states in the American South. Duke University Libraries has digitized 410 interviews from this collection. Nineteen of these digitized interviews were tagged with subjects "military service."