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Loyalty in time of trial : the African American experience during World War I /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mjagkij, Nina, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]
Colección:African-American history series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.