Axel W. Henri was born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands on October 27, 1914. Axel received a BS degree from Hampton Institute and a Master's degree from George Mason University, and studied law at Howard University. He enlisted in the Army in March, 1942. His military career covered twenty-nine years, where he advanced from private to the rank of colonel. After the Army, Axel joined the Xerox Corporation where he continued his fight for Civil Rights,

Moravian History in the Danish West Indies and an illustration of the Danish influence on the education of the enslaved and freemen as far back as 1732.

This volume brings together a host of renowned scholars who offer new analyses of the Black Power demonstrations in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as of the little-studied cases of Guyana, Barbados, Antigua, Bermuda, the Dutch Caribbean, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Organized state-by-state, the Red Book provides specific county and town record listings. Discover dates vital records were kept, years of state censuses, county court breakdowns, major repositories, and more. This resource is also available digitally on RootsWeb External.

The Story of the West India Regiments of the British Army.

A collection of 1344 topographic map sheets created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1894 to 1945 that covers the continental United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Area. The maps illustrate tactical and geographic features, such as military bases, landing strips, transportation networks, communication centers, and topography. The maps are labeled in one of three ways: Tactical, Progressive and Strategic. Tactical maps are the most detailed and contain firing grids for artillery. Some of the maps are stamped "restricted" but are no longer classified.

The story of V. I. first soldiers who served their country during World War II and other personal stories of St.-Croix, V. I. and 9/11 WTC.

Will A. Thurland of Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, a year after the Selective Service Act of 1940 was made applicable to the territory in World War II. The photographs are taken with a Kodak Brownie camera. The photographs and stories are of the Virgin Islands Orchestra and the Virgin Islands 872nd and 873rd Port Companies and their military journey in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Louisiana and Hawaii.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Denmark's solitary experiment with Indian indentured labor on St. Croix during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Includes a state by state breakdown of laws and records related to women's history.