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Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I
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For many of the 200,000 African American soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a wo...
For many of the 200,000 African American soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This work explores how WWI mobilized a generation.
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- Creator
- Adriane Lentz-Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674062051, 9780674062054, 0674054180, 0674035925, 9780674035928, 9780674054189
- OCLC
- ocn650350187, ocn979629182, ocn318876110
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Illustrations -- Introduction : studying war -- World on fire -- Fighting the southern huns -- Men in the making -- At war in the terrestrial heaven -- The world's experience -- Saving Sergeant Caldwell -- Forewarned is forearmed -- Epilogue : the fruit of conquest
Subjects
- United States. Army -- African American troops -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American.
- African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations.