From Alabama to Margraten

From Alabama to Margraten

The Story of War Veteran Jefferson Wiggins in the Segregated US Army during World War II

Kooymans, Frans; Kirkels, Mieke

Amsterdam University Press

03/2025

176

Mole

9789048568369

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Words by Jefferson Wiggins
Preface by Matthew Delmont
Preface to the second edition
Introduction by Janice Wiggins
Introduction to the second edition
Chapter 1: Houston County, Alabama
Chapter 2: A segregated crossing to Scotland
Chapter 3: Digging graves
Chapter 4: The fields of Margraten
Chapter 5: The Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
Chapter 6: American policy against racism in wartime
Chapter 7: Professional soldier or civilian
Chapter 8: A long career in education
Chapter 9: Lessons of Margraten
Chapter 10: Back to Margraten: A telephone call from the past
Chapter 11: Margraten 2009
Chapter 12: People should know!
Chapter 13: A follow-up oral history project
Chapter 14: People should know, the sequence
Epilogue by Jonathan Pieterse
Acknowledgements
Black American history, oral history, segregation, Dutch memorial culture, gravediggers, biography