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James B. Martin, Associate Dean U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, editor of African American War Heroes, presents a biographical dictionary in which 80 African American men (79) and women (1—Harriet Tubman) have been "…chosen to recognize specific combat actions that resulted in recognition for heroism." ("Preface," xii). Each of the war heroes profiled in this reference work have been awarded one or more military medals for valor save for three whose actions predate our nation's medal system. Still, inclusion in African American War Heroes is highly selective. Of the eighty-seven African Americans awarded the nation's highest honor fifty-four combat veterans are profiled.
