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Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I Cover Image Book

Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I / Adriane Lentz-Smith.

Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 1974- (Author).

Summary:

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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  • ISBN: 9780674035928
  • ISBN: 0674035925
  • Physical Description: 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject: 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.
Racism.
United States > Race relations.

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