African American doctors of World War I
Subtitle: the lives of 104 volunteers
By: W. Douglas Fisher and Joann H. Buckley
Contributors: Buckley, Joann H., author
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781476663159; 9781476623177
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; United States; United States. Army. Division, 93rd; United States. Army. Division, 92nd; Medical care; African American troops; History; African American Participation; African American physicians; United States. Army; Biography
Description: "A century ago, during the Jim Crow era, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.