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Hero Street, U.S.A.: The Story of Little Mexico's Fallen Soldiers

Name: Hero Street, U.S.A.: The Story of Little Mexico's Fallen Soldiers
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 9780806167343
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Contributors:

Marc Wilson

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Wars & Conflicts, Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

Korean War, World War II, American

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Release Date:

2020-07-07

ISBN 13:

9780806167343

Weight:

0.6 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.48 inches

Pages:

212

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Claro Solis wanted to win a gold star for his mother. He succeeded--as did seven other sons of "Little Mexico."

Second Street in Silvis, Illinois, was a poor neighborhood during the Great Depression that had become home to Mexicans fleeing revolution in their homeland. In 1971 it was officially renamed "Hero Street" to commemorate its claim to the highest per-capita casualty rate from any neighborhood during World War II. Marc Wilson now tells the story of this community and the young men it sent to fight for their adopted country.

Hero Street, U.S.A. is the first book to recount a saga too long overlooked in histories and television documentaries. Interweaving family memories, soldiers' letters, historical photographs, interviews with relatives, and firsthand combat accounts, Wilson tells the compelling stories of nearly eighty men from three dozen Second Street homes who volunteered to fight for their country in World War II and Korea--and of the eight, including Claro Solis, who never came back.

As debate swirls around the place of Mexican immigrants in contemporary American society, this book shows the price of citizenship willingly paid by the sons of earlier refugees. With Hero Street, U.S.A., Marc Wilson not only makes an important contribution to military and social history but also acknowledges the efforts of the heroes of Second Street to realize the American dream.

About the Author
Wilson, Marc: -

Marc Wilson is a veteran journalist, reporter, and news executive for the Associated Press and founder and CEO of the International Newspaper Network. He has been a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post, and the Boulder Daily Camera. The Montana Newspaper Association honored him in 2004 as a Master Editor-Publisher for his work at the Bigfork Eagle.

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