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From Alabama to Margraten

The Story of War Veteran Jefferson Wiggins in the Segregated US Army during World War II
ID 508011
Slug from-alabama-to-margraten-mieke-kirkels
Contributors
Author : Mieke Kirkels
Annotation
Description When he returned to the Netherlands in 2009, decades after World War II, Jefferson Wiggins realized that no one he met knew about the segregated US Army during the war, nor did they know about the contribution of Black American soldiers to the liberation of the Netherlands. They were not mentioned anywhere in Dutch history books or in archives. Together with oral historian Mieke Kirkels, Wiggins sat down to record his memories. Wiggins passed away in 2013, and his widow, Janice Wiggins-Paterson, continued the project in his memory. With newly discovered archival material, and richly illustrated, this book gives a lively account of an undocumented story of WWII, Black American, and Dutch military history.
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Subjects
694 Cultuur- en mentaliteitsgeschiedenis NUR
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Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 176
Duration
Publication date first 2025-02-03
Publication date latest 2025-02-03
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  • ISBN: 9789048568369 (BC)

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