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D
ocuments pertaining to the performance and treatment of black soldiers in World War II, as well as military intelligence and FBI surveillance of black soldiers and civilians are located at the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.

Important archives of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade are located at the Library of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Historical documentation of California National Guard units may be found in the California State Library located in Sacramento.

The archives of the American Civil Liberties Union are located at the Seeley Mudd Library of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

Files of the
Pentecost
and the
Standard Bearer
newspapers may be found at the Wesleyan Archives and Historical Library in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Papers of President Harry Truman are located in the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.

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W
e are indebted to many individuals for generous help in bringing this project to completion. First, we are deeply grateful to all those who provided us with important assistance regarding the events recounted in these pages: Edward “Buddha” Carter, William “Redd” Carter, Fred Scott, Russell Blair, Floyd Vanderhoef, Woodfred Jordan, Andrew Nix, John Pulliams, Robert Hale, Evanda Kiel, Robert Cabbell, Neale Henderson, Walter Gaines, Octurus Culp, Earl Gipson, Jack Hill, James Harris Jr., Tamlin Harris, Nicholas Cunningham, Herbert Levy, Elsa Schulz, Wendel and Carmen Rottler, Betty Rosentrater, Daniel Chamberlain, and Peter Gravett. We also thank Marcy McGaugh for her careful transcription of interviews.

Our search for documents was greatly facilitated by Kenneth Schlessinger, archivist at the National Archives, Victor Berch and Peter Carroll at the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and Wayne Keller at the Wesleyan Archives. We also thank Joe Wilson Jr., Professor Daniel
Gibran, and Professor Ling-chi Wang for steering us to helpful research materials.

Special thanks to journalists Joseph Galloway and Del Walters, who helped bring the story to public attention.

Without the vision of publishing professionals who championed this book, it would not have seen the light of day. We are grateful to Charles Harris and Manie Barron; our agents, Richard Abate and Marie Brown; and our editor, Dawn Davis.

Finally, we thank our families, especially our spouses, Edward Carter III, and Janet Carter, for their continuing encouragement and steadfast moral support.

About the Authors

A
LLENE
G. C
ARTER
is a self-taught researcher and union activist who has been featured in a number of media outlets, including
U.S. News & World Report,
the
Washington Post,
and the
Los Angeles Times.
She lives in Los Angeles, California.

R
OBERT
L. A
LLEN
is the author of
The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mutiny Trial in Naval History
. He teaches African American and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and is an editor of
The Black Scholar
. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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HONORING SERGEANT CARTER
. Copyright © 2003 by Allene G. Carter and Robert L. Allen. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition January 2007 ISBN 9780061746925

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carter, Allene G.
Honoring Sergeant Carter : redeeming a Black World War II hero's legacy / by Allene G. Carter and Robert L. Allen.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-06-621236-7

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