{"id":56569,"date":"2018-06-14T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56569"},"modified":"2018-06-14T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:15:06","slug":"1944-we-were-here-african-american-gis-in-dorset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56569","title":{"rendered":"1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/us\/en\/shop\/louisa-adjoa-parker\/1944-we-were-here-african-american-gis-in-dorset\/paperback\/product-21839197.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lulu<\/a><br \/>\n2014-10-06<br \/>\n103 pages<br \/>\n5.83 wide x 8.26 tall<br \/>\n0.57 lbs.<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781291278170<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louisaadjoaparker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Louisa Adjoa Parker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/us\/en\/shop\/louisa-adjoa-parker\/1944-we-were-here-african-american-gis-in-dorset\/paperback\/product-21839197.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.lulu.com\/browse\/product_thumbnail.php?productId=21839197&amp;resolution=320\" alt=\"1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset<\/em> explores the stories of the black soldiers who came to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorset<\/a> to train for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Normandy_landings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D-Day<\/a>. Told through the eyes of local people as well as the children of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G.I._(military)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIs<\/a> themselves, this is an important addition to Dorset&#8217;s rich and diverse history. Here we discover stories of friendship, love, murder, racism and the segregation that was a fact of life in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US<\/a> for African Americans at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset Lulu 2014-10-06 103 pages 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall 0.57 lbs. Paperback ISBN: 9781291278170 Louisa Adjoa Parker 1944 We Were Here: African American GIs in Dorset explores the stories of the black soldiers who came to Dorset to train for D-Day. Told through the eyes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,10],"tags":[14921,81,741,9713,969],"class_list":["post-56569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-uk","tag-dorset","tag-england","tag-louisa-adjoa-parker","tag-lulu","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56570,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56569\/revisions\/56570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}