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

Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I

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: print
    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
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United States Race relations

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