| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 155 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Skippy: the formative years -- U.S. Army combat soldier: Korea -- Captured! -- Camp 5 -- Turncoat? -- University days: Beijing and Wuhan -- Marriage and family -- The foreign languages press, Africans, and the Vietnam broadcasts -- Going home! -- Recriminations -- Bootstrapping to the American dream |
| Summary |
"Clarence Cecil 'Skippy' Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage and a commitment to learning. Unfortuantely, for an African American coming of age in the 1930's and 1940's, such attributes counted for little, especially if he lived in the South. Clarence Adams had another strike against him. In 1953, after spending thirty-three months as a POW during the Korean War, he chose not to return to his homeland; instead he went to China, where he spent the next 12 years of his life. After returning to the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee accused him of 'disrupting the morale of the American fighting forces in Vietmnam and inciting revolution in the U.S.' Adams vigorously denied these charges, explaining: 'I went to China because I was looking for freedom, a way out of poverty, and to be treated like a human being ..."--The preface |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
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OldControl:muse9781613760581 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Adams, Clarence, 1929-1999.
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| SUBJECT |
Adams, Clarence, 1929-1999
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Adams, Clarence, 1929-1999 fast |
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Prisoners of war -- China -- Biography
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Prisoners of war -- Korea (North) -- Biography
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
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Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons, American
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Prisoners of war
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China
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Korea (North)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Carlson, Lewis H
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Adams, Della, 1959-
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| LC no. |
2007004224 |
| ISBN |
9781613760581 |
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1613760582 |
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