`` Courage Has No Color `` By Tanya Lee Stone - 1646 Words

A. My book is called â€Å"Courage Has No Color,† by Tanya Lee Stone. The time period was around 1940’s. - The real events was creating the first African American paratroops battalion,555th parachute infantry, the American Japanese war, franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president, WWII, WWI, atom bomb, Civil war, NAACP, Tuskegee airmen, smokejumpers, Japanese Balloon Bomb. - The real people who was mentioned in the book were: Walter Morris, President Roosevelt, Clarence Beavers, Colonel Howard Donovan Queen, A. Philip Randolph, William H. Hastie, General Ridgely Gaither, Henry Jones, Yancey William, Benjamin O. Davis, Roger Walden, Bradley Biggs, Elijah Wesby, Hubert Bridges, Leo Reed and McKinley Godfrey, Ted â€Å"Tiger† Lowry, Jesse Mayes,†¦show more content†¦Most of the Blacks who didn’t follow rules were in danger. There’s no discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin. Everyone was still treated differently especially the black people. At that time there were many great improvements that happened. Roosevelt promised that blacks would serve in all branches of the armed forces. Blacks should be given a chance to prove their mettle. After what Roosevelt did, southerners thought that she was the most dangerous individual in the United States. â€Å"Soldiers were fighting the world’s worst ra cist, Adolph Hitler, in the world’s most segregated,† historian Stephen Ambrose later wrote. The white people didn’t want the black people to be with them. They’re always treated as second-class citizen. The trailblazing black paratrooper students were completely segregated the white students on their posts. The black were in one section of Fort Benning, and the white were in another. They had nothing to do with the white soldiers; they had nothing to do with the black. Black people were also not allowed to go to the counter. They didn’t want them to stand in the line with the white trainees, so they had someone to bring them their food. There were also some other mistreatments going on. The Triple Nickles were barred from the posts main theater. Discrimination