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Subject(s)

• World War, 1914-1918—Participation, African American [Browse]
• African American soldiers—History—20th century [Browse]
• African Americans—Social conditions—20th century [Browse]
• Racism—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]
• United States Army—African American troops—History—20th century [Browse]

Series

• African American history series (Lanham, Md.) [More in this series]
• African American history series

Summary note

Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were determined to fight for equality. These two factors forced America to confront the impact of segregation and racism. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the ""Great War.""

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• The land of Jim Crow : African Americans on the eve of World War I
• From field to factory : the wartime migration of African Americans
• Fighting to fight : the struggle for Black officers and combat soldiers
• Raising a Jim Crow army : the mobilization and training of African American Troops
• Over there : African American soldiers in France
• Closing ranks? African Americans on the home front
• Epilogue : returning to racism.

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ISBN

• 9786613912565
• 1-283-60011-0
• 0-7425-7045-2

OCLC

• 853359633
• 1412621283

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