Yvonne Latty [SEP] educated at
Yvonne Latty
Yvonne Latty is an American journalist, author, filmmaker and professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She has traveled the country to speak on subjects including race to writing, and is also a Leeway Foundation Fellow.
Latty is the director of the Reporting The Nation/Reporting New York in Multimedia graduate program at NYU and is the author of two books: "We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans From World War II to the War in Iraq" (Harper Collins/
story of African American soldiers in World War II, who went ashore in France during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy. Among the interviewees were veterans from Barrage Balloon Battalions, Quartermaster and Transportation Companies, and Engineers, as well as Coast Guard veteran, John Roberts, from USS LCI(L)-93, who lost a leg during the landings at Omaha Beach. Author/Historian Yvonne Latty was also interviewed for the program.
Historical Background.
In the decades leading up to World War II, the United States Army was segregated between white