Bibliograph

Freedom struggles, African Americans and World War I, Adriane Lentz-Smith

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Freedom struggles, African Americans and World War I, Adriane Lentz-Smith

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Freedom struggles

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

318876110

Responsibility statement

Adriane Lentz-Smith

Sub title

African Americans and World War I

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

Table Of Contents

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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