Robert F. Jefferson

Robert F. Jefferson Jr. is associate professor of African American studies and twentieth-century U.S. history at Xavier University in Ohio. He is author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (2008) and is currently working on a new book entitled Searching for Shadrach's Sons and Daughters: African American Ex-GIs and Disability in Modern American Wars.

Lecture topics:

• Black World War II GIs and the Civil Rights Movement
• Black Ex-GIs, Oral History, and Public Memory
• War, Race, and Disability in Modern American Wars
• African American GIs and World War II in Film
• African American Children, World War II, and Oral History

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