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The Color Line | 
 enlarge | Author: Walker Smith
Publisher: Sonata Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2669606
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 470
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0975933205
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780975933206
ASIN: 0975933205
Publication Date: April 2005
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Product Description
AN EPIC SAGA OF WORLD WAR I AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Among the heroic American "dough boys" of World War I were hundreds of young Black men from Harlem who joined the US Army in 1918. They weren't after glory, just respect-despite the prospect of menial work in a segregated army. But mounting casualties on the Western Front and a twist of fate had them reassigned to French command. There they forever distinguished themselves as "The Harlem Hellfighters." After surviving the horrors of war, one of those men-Serval Rivard-returns to his bride and a community on the rise. It is the Golden Age of Harlem-DuBois, Langston Hughes, Garvey's Back to Africa Movement, and the glamour of the Cotton Club. But as reports pour into Harlem of Black soldiers lynched in the uniforms of their country, it becomes clear that despite Black progress and military accomplishments, America's racial divide remains immutably in place. For Rivard and his family, the Great War has ended, but a new war has begun -- the war of the American Color Line.
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A true page turner March 9, 2006
I tell everyone I encounter they should read this book! Walker Smith's grasp on the characters and history warranted to tell this story is astounding. I still see the characters as if they are old friends and know you'll do the same. A must read!!!!
An American Storyteller of the First Rank May 10, 2005
Walker Smith is a writer who understands the complexity of the human soul. Here is a writer who is not afraid to delve into the dark, even brutal side of humanity. And yet, this is not a novel of despair, but of hope, deeply rich in compassion and humor. Smith's characters are bold, audacious, frightened and flawed, as only a first-rate storyteller can create. If you care at all about the history of race relations in this country, if you care at all about the ongoing struggle for human dignity, or if you just have a passion for good storytelling-Read This Book!
The Color Line by Walker Smith May 5, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was an excellent book. I could not wait to get home from work to finish reading it every day. I usually only read true stories because no one can create a character that is so believable and real. Not until now, anyway. These characters were so real, that I felt like I was living back in their time. I felt like I had a personal relationship with each of them. Now that I finished the book, I'm bored with my life again!!! Does this author have any more books that I can order? What I want to know is why doesn't the whole world know about Walker Smith?
(...a new Walker Smith fan)
The Color Line May 5, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Smith's characters are formed in the first few chapters then expertly woven into a storyline which encompasses the inhumanity of man in war and in peace as well as the determination of a few
dreamers who must decide how high is the price of integrity. I didn't put it down 'till I was done. Thank God for weekends! An enjoyable read (that last line was for my mother who loathes the use of the word "read" as a noun. I just sent her this book. Happy Mothers Day Mom!)
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