Braided in Fire

local sites re Sommocolonia and Barga

in ENGLISH

• Barga News
  barganews.com
  This Barga, Italy site is 100% in English.

• Associazione Ricreativa Sommocolonia
  associazionericreativasommocolonia.it
  This Sommocolonia site has many articles in English as well as in Italian.

• A Path to Lunch
  apathtolunch.com is a website series for hikers. Go to the online article “Liberation Day and the Liberation of America” and scroll down to “The Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry” section.
  apathtolunch.com/search/label/Liberation%20WWII%20Ameglia
  

in Italian

• il Giornale di Barga
  giornaledibarga.it

MUSEUMS

• DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, IL
  dusablemuseum.org

• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, MI
  thewright.org 

• California African American Museum in Los Angeles, CA
  caamuseum.org

• National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN
  civilrightsmuseum.org

• The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA
  nationalww2museum.org

• Oakland Public Library & African American Museum in Oakland, CA
  oaklandlibrary.org

• Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, CA
  moadsf.org

• Museo Italo-Americano in San Francisco, CA
  museoitaloamericano.org

• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, DC
  nmaahc.si.edu

• The National Medal of Honor Museum
  mohmuseum.org

MILITARY HISTORY

• Fort Devens | 366th Infantry Regiment trained at Fort Devens, MA
  militarybases.us/army/fort-devens/

• Camp Darby | Camp Darby is a small US base between Livorno and Pisa, Italy which has participated in educational tours of Sommocolonia.
  installations.militaryonesource.mil/in-depth-overview/usag-italy-darby-military-community

• United States Army 366th Infantry Regiment and Other Colored Divisions Collection | Collection created by James E. Pratt re 366th Infantry Regiment available at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM08501.html

BUFFALO SOLDIER HISTORY

• History of Buffalo Soldiers (9th & 10th Cavalries) at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA
  nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/index.htm

• National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, TX 
  Buffalo Soldier history (& other ethnic cowboys), also Tuskeegee Airmen memorabilia and tributes.
  cowboysofcolor.org

• Texas State Historical Association | “Buffalo Soldiers” by Mark Odintz
  tshaonline.org
  tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qlb01

• New York Times | “My Very Own Captain America” by Charles M. Blow, July 29, 2011.
  nytimes.com/2011/07/30/opinion/blow-my-very-own-captain-america.html?_r=1&ref=global

ITALIAN AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS

• Italian Cultural Institutes in the US:
  Chicago  iicchicago.esteri.it
  Los Angeles  iiclosangeles.esteri.it
  New York City  iicnewyork.esteri.it
  San Francisco  iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it
  Washington, DC  iicwashington.esteri.it

• L’Italo-Americano Newspaper
  italoamericano.org

• CIAO – Coalition of Italian American Organizations
  ciaoamerica.net

• Italy-USA Foundation based in Rome promotes friendship between Italians and Americans plus American culture in Italy.
  italiausa.org

• National Italian American Foundation
  niaf.org

• Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America
  osia.org

RELATED BOOK SITES

Many worthy books have no website. Please see BIBLIOGRAPHY for a more extensive list of references.

• Ressurecting Love | resurrectinglove.org
  China Galland is the author of Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves and Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna.

• Dianne Hales | diannehales.com
  Dianne Hales is the author of La Bella Lingua, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered and La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World.

• Black Warriors Book | blackwarriorsbook.com
  Ivan Houston, himself a Buffalo Soldier, authored Black Warriors:The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II. (In the trailer for Houston’s documentary, With One Hand Tied (2018), is a backdrop photo of Sommocolonia and a very brief interview with Solace Wales about the Sommocolonia battle.)

• Carolyn Ross Johnston | carolynrossjohnston.com
  Carolyn Ross Johnston, daughter of a white officer with the 92nd, wrote My Father’s War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II.