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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.