Investigate Everything : Federal Efforts to Compel Black Loyalty During World War I.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. "Patriotism and Loyalty Presuppose Protection and Liberty -- 1. "It became necessary to investigate everything": The Birth of Modern Political Science -- 2. "Very full of the anti-war sprit": Fears of Enemy Subversion during World War I -- 3. "Slackers, Delinquents, and Deserters": African Americans and Draft Enforcement during World War I -- 4. "The most dangerous of all Negro journals": Federal Efforts to Silence the Chicago Defender -- 5. "Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP under Suspicion -- 6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ under Attack -- 7. "Rabid and inflammatory": Further Attacks on the Pen and Pulpit -- 8. "Spreading enemy propaganda": Alien Enemies, Spies, and Subversives -- 9. "Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the Moens Case -- 10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during World War I -- Epilogue. "The Negro is 'seeing red'": From World War into the Red Scare -- Notes -- Index.

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