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Freedom struggles : African Americans and World War I / Adriane Lentz-Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lentz-Smith, Adriane, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--African American troops--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- History.
- World War, 1914-1918--Participation, African American.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- African American soldiers--History--20th century.
- African American soldiers.
- African Americans--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Armed Forces--African American troops.
- Military participation--African American.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Honor, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780674035928
- 0674035925
- 9780674062054
- 0674062051
- OCLC:
- 318876110
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