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Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From WWII to Peace

By Ashley Bryan
Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum ISBN

9781534404908

Awards and Honors <i>Kirkus</i> Best Books - 2019 <br> <i>Horn Book</i> Fanfare - 2019 <br> CPL Best Books - 2019 <br> CSMCL Best Books - 2019 <br> <i>Coretta Scott King</i> Illustrator Book Award Honoree - 2020 <br> The <i>Flora Stieglitz Straus</i> 2020 Award Winner <br> <i>Boston Globe-Horn Book</i> Nonfiction Award Winner<br>

Infinite Hope: A Black Artist's Journey From WWII to Peace

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism

In May of 1942, at the age of eighteen, Ashley Bryan was drafted to fight in World War II. For the next three years, he would face the horrors of war as a black soldier in a segregated army. He endured the terrible lies white officers told about the black soldiers to isolate them from anyone who showed kindness—including each other. He received worse treatment than even Nazi POWs. He was assigned the grimmest, most horrific tasks, like burying fallen soldiers…but was told to remove the black soldiers first because the media didn’t want them in their newsreels. And he waited and wanted so desperately to go home, watching every white soldier get safe passage back to the United States before black soldiers were even a thought.



For the next forty years, Ashley would keep his time in the war a secret. But now, he tells his story. The story of the kind people who supported him. The story of the bright moments that guided him through the dark. And the story of his passion for art that would save him time and time again.



“A Note About the Children.” Sources. Index. Full-color illustrations and reproductions.
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