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De Misisipi a Madrid
James Yates
其他書名
memorias de un afroamericano de la Brigada Lincoln
出版Oficina de Arte y Ediciones, 2011
ISBN84938886489788493888640
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7OqWtgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Compliments and seventy years of the Civil War's end, there are still dark episodes of this contest that are poorly known. Among these, the vicissitudes of the black brigade, from the United States, enlisted to fight in defense of the Spanish Republic. "Mississippi to Madrid" - memoirs of a black American in the Spanish Civil War. Throughout its pages, James Yates (1906-1993) recounts the path that led from the U.S. southern lands to Spanish Civil War. But the interest of his book lies not only in the singular adventures of Yates, or comments about characters, like Carrillo, Negrin, Companys, Durruti, the Passion and Malraux, but in its purpose of tracking the participation of African Americans enrolled in Lincoln Brigade, the first non-segregated U.S. military's history. Quite the opposite of what was happening in the daily life of their country, the Black Brigades were not removed from the community. ... the participation of black Americans in the Spanish race barely started investigating in mid-eighties, coinciding with the publication of "Mississippi to Madrid". Until then, the veterans were less visible, not only in Spain but in their own country. Historically, the International Brigades represented the first experience of a global volunteer force mobilized by the same ideology. In total, about 38,000 crossed the border - troops from 53 countries. The Americans, gathered at the Lincoln Brigade, numbered about three thousand. Their average age 27 years, made them the young and inexperienced. About a hundred were black, and about half of those killed or missing in the battles of Jarama, Brunete, Belchite, Teruel and the Ebro,and rest forever on Spanish soil."--Web site http://www.lipstickalley.com/f50/history-african-americans-serving-spanish-civil-war-205826/ viewed on15/05/2012.