“Black Soldiers in the Korean War” (on Zoom)

Professor Thomas Ward will be presenting “Black Soldiers in the Korean War” on Zoom Tuesday, February 25 at 7 p.m. Registration is required. The Zoom link is at the end of this posting.

The Korean War is often referred to as America’s forgotten war. Over 7,000 servicemen were captured and interned during the war with another 8,000 listed as missing in action, many of whom were captured and killed or died in camps.

While only the Civil War saw larger numbers of Black soldiers taken prisoner on the battlefield, African Americans who fought in the Korean War and especially African American POWs have largely been ignored and not celebrated for their contributions.

This program is sponsored by The Friends of the Englewood Library.

Topic: “Black Soldiers in the Korean War”
Time: Feb 25, 2025 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85688580359?pwd=qPlbPVDejlJ7u9WXb0FB2PGFF3uL08.1

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Passcode: 593610

Tom Ward is the assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Farmingdale State College-State University of New York. A native of Annapolis, MD, Dr. Ward received his education at Hampden-Sydney College (B.A. 991), Clemson University (M.A. 1993), and the University of Southern Mississippi (Ph.D. 1999). Before coming to Farmingdale, Ward was the chair of history department at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. He has held previous teaching positions at Rockhurst University (Kansas City, MO) and University College Cork, in Ireland.

Ward has written numerous articles on African-American history, the history of health care in the American South, and prisoners-of-war. His work has appeared in various outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Army History, The Journal of African American History, the Journal of Mississippi History, and Louisiana History. He is the author of two books, Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South (University of Arkansas Press, 2003), and Out in the Rural: A Mississippi Health Center and its War on Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2017), which received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and the 2018 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. In 2018, he contributed a new foreword to the re-release of Robert Coles’ and Al Clayton’s classic work, Still Hungry in America (University of Georgia Press) Ward has received several awards for his work, including those from the Association of American Publishers, the Langum Charitable Trust, the Gulf South Historical Association, The Mississippi Historical Society, and the Virginia Military Institute.

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