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Courage Has No Color: The True Story Of The Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers (2013)

by Tanya Lee Stone(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0763651176 (ISBN13: 9780763651176)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: This is the true story of America's first black paratroopers their heroic tales as they battled during WW2. This is the tale of the Triple Nickels and their fearless leader Sergeant Walter Morris as they face racism on and off the battlefield. More importantly, this tells the story of how the military branch took a step in the right direction in equality for soldiers regardless of color through pictures, newspaper clippings and paintings. The book I decided to twin it with was the book The Boy In The Stripped Pajamas. This is a story of boy, Bruno, who was forced to change houses during the WW2 era. One day while he is bored at his house, he goes against his father's wishes and explores his backyard environment only to discover a boy in stripped pajamas behind a barb wire ... morefence. Just like Walter Morris and his courage in facing up against the Germans, Bruno against all odds befriends this boy to help him out. Both Walter Morris and Bruno showed courage and that skin color or race doesn't change the character of a person.
review 2: Thanks to the 2014 Hub Reading Challenge and the webinar hosting the nominees to the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award, I was able to read this book and thoroughly enjoyed viewing Tanya Lee Stone talk about her research for this book. Thhis book is packed with photographs, interviews and quotes from the Triple Nickels themselves and others in history. Students need to read this noteworthy book about WWII and the trying times for African Americans who wanted to serve in the war for their country and were constantly relegated to menial tasks, inferior accommodations and segregated facilities. This book is a tribute to the steadfast African American soldiers, and paratroopers in Walter Morris' words, "We succeeded where we were not expected to succeed. And we overcame the pitfalls that were put out there. We overcame. And it's a warm feeling to know that, that color has nothing to do with it. It's what's in one's hearts. One's spirit. And that...should be a lesson to all of us. We should have, and we will have, a colorless society one day. And that will be the crowning jewel in this great country's history." less

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