African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: Christopher Brooks Research Files 1930-1994

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African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: Christopher Brooks Research Files 1930-1994

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Christopher Brooks was a graduate student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, who in 1993 began research on a thesis project chronicling African Americans who fought on the side of the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War. As part of that research, he sent out survey forms, along with a request for any additional information, to other surviving volunteers of that struggle who had fought in either American, British or Canadian brigades. He hoped that their memories of specific African-American fighters, including their military and political histories and any other personal details, would add greater depth to the portraits already published in the volume, edited by Danny Duncan Collum and researched by Victor Berch, entitled (G.K. Hall and Co., 1992). This collection consists of descriptive material on the project and responses from the veterans (and spouses) who replied. African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: “This Ain’t Ethiopia but It’ll Do”

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Brooks, Christopher T.

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Christopher T. Brooks was a graduate student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, who planned to write a thesis on African Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Having read the work of Danny Collum and Victor A. Berch, African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: "This Ain't Ethiopia but It'll Do," published under the auspices of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives in 1992, he felt that there was still more information that could be collected concerning the live...

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