Colin Powell: Military Leader (Black Americans of Achievement Ser.Black Americans of Achievement)
Biographies, Histoire (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Discusses the life and career of Colin Powell, the nation's first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) for the armed forces. Appointed in 1989, Powell had also been promoted to the army's highest rank, four-star general, several… months prior. In a military that had at first excluded, then segregated African-Americans under the command of white officers, his achievement was of great significance. For grades 5-8 and older readers