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Investigate everything : federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I /

Free speech for African Americans, during World War I, had to be exercised with great caution. The federal government, spurred on by a super-patriotic and often alarmed white public, determined to suppress any dissent against the war and enforce on the black population one hundred percent patriotism...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kornweibel, Theodore
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. "Patriotism and Loyalty Presuppose Protection and Liberty"
  • "It became necessary to investigate everything": The Birth of Modern political Intelligence
  • "Very full of the anti-war spirit": Fears of Enemy Subversion during World War I
  • "Slackers, Delinquents, and Deserters": African Americans and Draft Enforcement during World War I
  • "The most dangerous of all Negro journals": Federal Efforts to Silence the Chicago Defender
  • "Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP under Suspicion
  • "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ under Attack
  • "Rabid and inflammatory": Further Attacks on the Pen and Pulpit
  • "Spreading enemy propaganda": Alien Enemies, Spies, and Subversives
  • "Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the Moens Case
  • "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during World War I
  • Epilogue. "The Negro is 'seeing red'": From the World War into the Red Scare.