Buckley, Gail Lumet

Gail Lumet Buckley is the daughter of Lena Horne. Starting with her great-great-grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who became a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, she follows two branches of the family: one that stayed in the South and the other that settled in Brooklyn. From Atlanta during the Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, to world wars and the civil rights movement, her family participated in the most crucial turning points in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.

Chronicles the history of African-American military service, describing military racial policies and the everyday experiences of Black soldiers, and draws from interviews with veterans spanning a century of combat.

Describes the military contributions of African-American soldiers from the Revolutionary War to the present day.