Freedom struggles
Subtitle: African Americans and World War I
By: Adriane Lentz-Smith.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780674035928
Subjects: United States. -- Army -- African American troops -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, African American; African American soldiers -- History -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Introduction : studying war; title: World on fire; title: Fighting the southern huns; title: Men in the making; title: At war in the terrestrial heaven; title: The world's experience; title: Saving Sergeant Caldwell; title: Forewarned is forearmed; title: Epilogue : the fruit of conquest.