LEADER 01761nam 2200385 a 4500001 99125360332306421 005 20200520144314.0 006 m o d | 007 cr#cn||||||||| 008 090424s2009 maua ob 001 0 eng^^ 015 GBA994727 |2bnb 016 7 |z015380817 |2Uk 019 (OCoLC)979629182 020 0-674-05418-0 024 7 10.4159/9780674054189 |2doi 035 (CKB)2670000000040434 035 (OCoLC)650350187 035 (CaPaEBR)ebrary10402528 035 (SSID)ssj0000418089 035 (PQKBManifestationID)11288006 035 (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418089 035 (PQKBWorkID)10380254 035 (PQKB)10270873 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC3300864 035 (DE-B1597)457688 035 (OCoLC)979629182 035 (DE-B1597)9780674054189 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL3300864 035 (CaPaEBR)ebr10402528 035 (EXLCZ)992670000000040434 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 eng 043 n-us---e------ 044 mau |cUS-MA 050 4 D639.N4 |bL46 2009 072 7 HIS027090 |2bisacsh 082 0 940.4/03 |222 084 NP 5250 |2rvk 100 1 Lentz-Smith, Adriane Danette. 245 10 Freedom struggles : |bAfrican Americans and World War I / |cAdriane Lentz-Smith. 250 1st ed. 260 Cambridge, Mass. : |bHarvard University Press, |c2009. 300 1 online resource 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 520 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. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 650 0 World War, 1914-1918 |xParticipation, African American. 650 0 African American soldiers |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 African Americans |xSocial conditions |y20th century. 650 0 Racism |zUnited States |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 United States |xRace relations. 610 10 United States. |bArmy |xAfrican American troops |xHistory |y20th century. 776 |z0-674-03592-5 906 BOOK