LINDA GOSS  is a teacher who has taught and studied African history throughout her 20 year career. She is the author of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses of the Ennead; Exploring Egypt; Teacher's Resource Manual and numerous journal articles. She is a recipient of the NEH and Council for Basic Education fellowships and has presented at many Va teacher conferences and workshop.
Her father was a Buffalo Soldier in World War II War Revelations Lead to History Project of 92nd Infantry Buffalo Division Read all about it: http://hamptonroads.com/node/519254

TIFFANY DAVIS is an Emmy®-winning producer. She recently was overseeing specialized shows as a Coordinating Producer at ESPN, Inc.  Tiffani has worked as a network producer at ABC News “Good Morning America” in Washington D.C., where she traveled around the world for breaking news. She exclusively booked high-profile guests for nearly six years.  Over the years, she worked in every capacity in television at ABC, CNN, WJLA-TV, and the Voice of America.  Tiffani had the pleasure of spending her teenage years in Germany as a military brat. She understands the life of the military. Tiffani is the daughter of (Ret.) Army Warrant Officer Swanee and (Ret.) Army Sergeant First Class Lynn Flack. SAME JOURNEY, DIFFERENT BOOTS will be her debut feature documentary as director/producer
MAGGI MOREHOUSE  is the first graduate of the African American Studies program at the University of California at Berkeley, completing her Ph.D. in May 2001. Since the fall of 2003 she has been teaching at the University of South Carolina Aiken. She teaches a full load of classes on African American History, Contemporary US History, Women’s History, in addition to some Honors Program courses. Her monograph Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II chronicles the greatest black generation through the use of archival data as well as fifty personal interviews. You can find some of her oral histories that document African American GIs in Germany at http://www.aacvr-germany.org/. She has also published on African Diaspora Theory, and has contributed chapters to The Long Civil Rights Movement and The Social History of the Civil War, as well as contributed several extended entries to the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of African American History. She is currently working on an oral history project that chronicles the relocation of African Americans to the South. She is also co-producing with Historical Marker Productions, a documentary about the lives of the people who lived at Edgewood, an 1829 backcountry-style plantation home. Visit the production website: http://www.edgewoodfilm.com/.
JAMES MCBRIDE is an award-winning writer and composer. His critically acclaimed memoir, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother, explores the author's struggle to understand his biracial identity and the experience of his white, Jewish mother, who moved to Harlem, married a black man, and raised 12 children. The Color of Water won the 1997 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Literary Excellence, was an ALA Notable Book of the Year, and spent more than two years on the bestseller list. Chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 books of 1996 to remember, The Color of Water has sold more than 1.3 million copies in the United States alone and is now required reading at numerous colleges and high schools across the country. It has also been published in 16 languages and in more than 20 countries.After the success of The Color of Water, McBride turned to fiction, albeit inspired by his family's history.He recalled the war stories of his uncle and cousin, who served in the all-black 92nd Infantry Division, and began researching World War II in Italy -- particularly the clashes between Italian Partisans and the German army. Miracle at St Anna was published in 2002. His second novel, Song Yet Sung, was published in 2008.
McBride is a former staff writer for The Washington Post, People Magazine and The Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in Essence, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Aside from his literary honors, McBride is the recipient of several awards for his work as a composer in musical theater, including the 1996 American Arts and Letters Richard Rodgers Award, the 1996 ASCAP Richard Rodgers Horizons Award, and the American Music Festival's 1993 Stephen Sondheim Award. He has written the score for several musicals, including the highly acclaimed, award-winning show "Bobos."
92nd Infantry Division WW II
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"Same Journey, Different Boots" The Documentary
Did you know the Army experimented with men near Einstein level intelligence? Did you know there were hundreds of blacks soldiers destined for a mad science program? Some were sent to war without combat skills. How can anyone prepare to kill with no basic training?
Just like the Tuskegee Airmen, A Company 2515 ASTP was a select group of black men defying the odds. These cocky young foot soldiers called themselves "The Prometheans" after the Greek god of fire Prometheus. The young teens admired the Greek god’s fore-thinking and intellect.
SPIKE LEE 's big screen adaptation of James McBride’s Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four black American soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped in a small Tuscan village on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The film deals with the Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre, but is structured with a Titanic/Saving Private Ryan flashback plot device involving a priceless Italian artifact, which is discovered in a murderer’s closet. The sculpted head from Ponte Santa Trinita, valued at $5 million, is a clue to a mystery that began 39 years earlier, when the soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines and separated from their unit after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.

http://www.40acres.com
CAROLYN JOHNSTON began teaching at Eckerd College in 1978. She specializes in American History, American Studies, Native American History, Women’s History, Environmental History, and African-American History. She served as Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, 1990-2007. She is Co-founder of Florida Consortium for Women’s Studies, a statewide coalition of department, program and center of women’s studies and gender studies. She served as Co-Chair of the program Florida without Borders: Women at the Intersection of the Local and global, February 9-11, 2007. She is author of Jack London: An American Radical?, Sexual Power: Feminism and the Family in America, Cherokee Women in Crisis: Removal, The Civil War, and Allotment 1838-1907. She is currently writing a book on the Buffalo Soldiers in World War Two.

Professor Johnston teaches several courses which explore gender issues including: Women in Modern America, Rebels with a Cause, Native American History, Becoming Visible, and Making History: The Sixties.
KAREN  SAILLANT is developing a world premiere opera project entitled Buffalo Soldier. This piece would reconstruct, forthe first time in an opera, an important piece of African American history, placing it within the context of The Civil Rights Movement, using first hand accounts and stories from soldiers one of whom is James W. Thomas. 1st Sergeant Thomas, a Buffalo Soldier, moved to Philadelphia upon his retirement from the army and spent the last 40plus years of his life in Philadelphia. The piece will include 3 African American male singers, a gospel choir and an orchestra There will be original music by Italian composer Carlo Pedini, who has had works premiered at La Scala di Milano and is published by Sonzogno in Milan, as well as spirituals, popular songs of World War II, (in both Italian and English), operatic arias and Neapolitan songs.
Musician, stage director, opera singer, librettist, playwright, actor, commedia dell’arte artist, pianist and choral conductor, Karen Saillant has 40 plus years creating, directing, producing and performing in classic and original works of art, as well as training others to perform in them.
In 1975, when Bulgaria was still behind the iron curtain, she was the first American representative to the annual international singing competition in Sofia.
Commissioned by many museums and organizations including The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Philadelphia Museum of Art to create new works of theater and music to highlight their collections, in 2007 The Philadelphia Orchestra commissioned her to create and direct a new theatrical representation of The Pulcinella Suite by Igor Stravinsky for their family concert series in celebration of the 150th anniversary of The Academy of Music in Philadelphia.


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BOB ROGERS IS an IBM manager for thirty-three years, is president of Global Medical Data in Charlotte, NC.  He is a former army captain, Vietnam War veteran, and a charter member of Baltimore, MD’s 9th and 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association chapter.  His alma mater is South Carolina State University.  Bob is an avid baseball fan and lives in Charlotte.

Early in 1943, Hirohito, Hitler, and Mussolini are near the apex of their powers. The three Axis powers are successfully ruling most of the countries of Europe, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. In the same year, Will, a lumberjack and amateur baseball player, and Dena, a beautiful and head-strong co-ed, fall in love.
While a world war rages, their dreams are threatened, first by Dena’s mother’s classism. Dena’s mother declares Will is “not good enough” for her daughter and orders Dena to stop seeing him. Dena vows never to give up her love for Will and won’t have anything to do with the suitor, a young teacher, her mother chooses for her.
Meanwhile, a group of powerful businessmen have designs to exploit Will’s extraordinary baseball skills for their financial gain. A member of the business cartel is a county judge and former professional baseball player who leads the drive to have Will make the baseball team in their small North Carolina town into a major attraction and moneymaker.
The carefully laid baseball business scheme fails when the Ku Klux Klan attacks Will’s family. Dena and Will are forced to separate as he flees for his life. As he departs, Dena provides Will writings of Langston Hughes. Hughes’ poems and columns become central to Will’s determination to survive all hardships and reunite with Dena.
Will finds refuge in the US Army’s 366th Infantry Regiment and the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Division fighting Hitler’s Wehrmacht in Italy. He bonds with three members of his infantry platoon. Their leader calls them the “Four Musketeers.” They are of the generation that becomes known as America’s greatest.
Together, the friends become a tight-knit family, at times fighting among themselves, and at other times, uniting to take on all-comers – other American servicemen, perverse use of courts-martial, and the Wehrmacht. They pool their skills to make the best of army life while continuously evolving their own unique reasons as to why they should fight the Germans. They discover a second enemy – their American commanding general who tells them, “I will see to it that you suffer your share of the casualties.” The “Musketeers” meet and embrace Italian Partisans in their homes and side by side on the battlefield. Together with the Partisans, they fight against the Germans during the harsh winter of 1944-1945 in Italy’s Tuscany.
In the face of hardships and certain death in both North Carolina and Italy that threaten to keep the lovers apart, Will meets challenge after challenge on the path to living the life he and Dena dream of having together

Contact Bob:
P.O. Box 620064
Charlotte, NC 28262
United States of America 

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Rescue at Pine Ridge embodies the Native American Indians, Outlaws and Buffalo Soldiers, in the days of the Native American Wars with the approaching United States of America.
Rescue at Pine Ridge depicts the true gallantry and spirit of these Black Buffalo Soldiers in the United States Army.  These volunteer soldiers endured extreme hardships in their everyday lives, not only from the environment, weather, military personnel, and enemies of the United States, but also from the ones they were sworn to protect.
The gossip and rumors they experienced were false due to paranoia and racism.  The civilians, their officers, the Native American Indians that gave them their name, who observed their bravery, gallantry and heroism, knew better.  For the Buffalo Soldiers, it was duty and honor!
Rescue at Pine Ridge is about brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism and gallantry.
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