Captain Blackman Author:John A. Williams Named among the most important works of fiction of the decade by when first published in 1972, is the first book to be published in Coffee House Presss Black Arts Movement Series. True to form, John A. Williams is exhaustive and accurate in his historical research of the significant role played by African Americans in the military. Captain ... more »Blackman is a U.S. soldier in Vietnam who becomes seriously wounded. As he drifts in and out of consciousness he travels back in time reliving each war since the American Revolution as an African American soldier.« less