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Freedom Struggles : African Americans and World War I.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674054189
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Freedom StrugglesDDC classification:
  • 940.4/03
LOC classification:
  • D639.N4 L46 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Studying War -- 1. World on Fire -- 2. Fighting the Southern Huns -- 3. Men in the Making -- 4. At War in the Terrestrial Heaven -- 5. The World's Experience -- 6. Saving Sergeant Caldwell -- 7. Forewarned Is Forearmed -- Epilogue: Th e Fruit of Conquest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. Lentz-Smith narrates the efforts of these African American soldiers to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Studying War -- 1. World on Fire -- 2. Fighting the Southern Huns -- 3. Men in the Making -- 4. At War in the Terrestrial Heaven -- 5. The World's Experience -- 6. Saving Sergeant Caldwell -- 7. Forewarned Is Forearmed -- Epilogue: Th e Fruit of Conquest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. Lentz-Smith narrates the efforts of these African American soldiers to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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