Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I

Resource Information

The work Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I

Title remainder

African Americans and World War I

Statement of responsibility

Adriane Lentz-Smith

Creator

• Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 1974-

Subject

• African American soldiers
• African American soldiers -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Afro-amerikanska soldater -- 1914-1918 (första världskriget)
• Armed Forces -- African American troops
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Ethnische Identität
• History
• Military participation -- African American
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Rassenbeziehung -- Weltkrieg I -- USA
• 1900-1999
• Schwarze
• Sozialstatus
• US-Soldat
• USA
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• United States, Army
• United States, Army -- African American troops | History -- 20th century
• Weltkrieg
• Weltkrieg I -- Rassenbeziehung -- USA
• World War (1914-1918)
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American
• Schwarze

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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

Awards note

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award, 2010.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

940.4/03

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

D639.N4

LC item number

L46 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography