Wallace Terry

“Ray Boomhower has captured all the gritty detail of a pioneering Black journalist’s professional and personal life in his Wallace Terry: A Reporter’s Journey from Selma to Saigon to Bloods. The reader is witness to Terry’s years-long strength and determination to tell the story of the Black soldier in the Vietnam War in his seminal best seller Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. The obstacles were many. Terry overcame them all!” - Leon Dash, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

“An outstanding biography of a trailblazing African American journalist whose coverage of the civil rights struggle and Vietnam War in the 1960s endures as a landmark in courage. Wallace Terry is a masterful work of scholarship, exquisitely researched and intricately detailed.” - Neil Henry, author of Pearl’s Secret: A Black Man’s Search for His White Family

“Highly recommended. Ray Boomhower’s biography of the journalist Wally Terry is a thorough and enlightening look at Terry’s remarkable life and career, including his courageous and pioneering work as a war correspondent in the Vietnam War.” - Marc Leepson, author of The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton

“This riveting and well-written biography sheds penetrating light on the career of a pioneering Black journalist and war correspondent. Wallace Terry’s reportage from the battlefields of Vietnam—and Dixie before that—remains illuminating and remarkably educational.” - Gerald Horne, author of The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox

Ray E. Boomhower is the acclaimed author of twenty books, including biographies about some of the country’s finest war correspondents such as Ernie Pyle, Richard Tregaskis, and Malcolm W. Browne.

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