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Bryan, Ashley.
INFINITE HOPE : A BLACK ARTIST'S JOURNEY FROM WORLD WAR II TO PEACE
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2019]
IL 5-8
ISBN     9781534404908
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 You may know Ashley Bryan as an author and illustrator of many children's books. His works have won many awards. But you may not know the man himself. Ashley shares his story of his life during World War II. In 1943, he was drafted into the army. He was surprised at how Blacks were treated in the army. He had never experienced segregation before. But that was the just the beginning of his experience as a soldier in the war.

SUBJECTS:   Bryan, Ashley.
                        African American illustrators.
                        African American soldiers.
                        Illustrators.
                        Military participation -- African American.
                        Soldiers.
                        United States.
                        World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.
                        African Americans -- Biography.

 
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