Despite the participation of African American women in all aspects of home-front activity during World War II, advertisements, recruitment posters, and newsreels largely portrayed white women as army nurses, defense plant workers, concerned mothers, and steadfast wives. This sea of white faces left for posterity images such as Rosie the Riveter, obscuring the contributions that African American women made to the war effort. In Bitter Fruit, Maureen Honey corrects this distorted picture of women's roles in World War II by collecting photos, essays, fiction, and poetry by and about black women from the four leading African American periodicals of the war period: Negro Digest, The Crisis, Opportunity, and Negro Story.

"A pictorial documentary of the Black American male and female participation and involvement in the military affairs of the United States of America.." See especially chapter IV, "The black female in pursuit of military objectives from colonial times and slavery through equality of opportunity,” p. 137-148.
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See especially "Black women in the military service of the United States," p. 89-106; see also listings of African American graduates under the individual service academies.
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See especially chapter 4, "World War II: Black women at war," p. 66-77, and "Leadership and inclusion of women in the Army: 1974-1999," p. 142-145.

3 volumes.

Double Victory assembles and tells the stories of African American women who did war work, volunteered, were political activists, and worked in other ways to help their country during World War II. In these pages young readers meet a range of remarkable women: war workers, political activists, military women, volunteers, and entertainers. Features stories of Mary McLeod Bethune, Lena Horne, Hazel Dixon Payne, Deverne Calloway, and Betty Murphy Phillips. The books offers a new and diverse perspective on the war and includes source notes and a bibliography.

In 1945 four African-American Women Army Corps (WAC) privates--Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young participated in a strike alongside fifty other WACs, to obtain better positions. The strike captured the nation's attention and ignited passionate debates on racism, women in the military, and patriotism. Glory in Their Spirit presents the story of their persistence and the public uproar that ensued.

This collection includes unusual accounts by women on active duty, retired officers, women who have worked for the armed forces in a civilian capacity, and civilian academics.

The book explores the battles against occupational segregation by African American women and also by white men in the U.S. Army.

The efforts of black servicemen were extensively documented in a 600-page history by Emmett J. Scott, a special assistant to the Secretary of War in charge of “recruitment, training, and morale of the African American soldiers.”
"A complete and authentic narration, from official sources, of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the World War for democracy ... a full acount of the war work organizations of colored men and women and other civilian activities, including the Red Cross, the Y.M.C.A., the Y.W.C.A. and the War camp community service, with official summary of treaty of peace and League of Nations covenant."
See especially chapter 27, "Negro women in war work."
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Standing Up Against Hate tells the stories and struggles of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in World War II. The book centers around Charity Adams, who commanded the 6888th, the only black WAAC battalion sent overseas and became the highest ranking African American woman in the military by the end of the war. Along with Adams's story are those of other black women who played a crucial role in integrating the armed forces. The book includes a timeline, bibliography, and index.

To Serve My Country, to Serve my Race is the story of the historic 6888th, the first United States Women's Army Corps unit composed of African-American women to serve overseas in Europe.

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