Investigate everything
Subtitle: federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I
By: Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- African Americans.; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prologue. "Patriotism and Loyalty Presuppose Protection; title: and Liberty" 1; title: 1. "It became necessary to investigate everything": The Birth of Modem; title: Political Intelligence 10; title: 2. "Very full of the anti-war spirit": Fears of Enemy Subversion during; title: World War I 37; title: 3. "Slackers, Delinquents, and Deserters": African Americans and Draft; title: Enforcement during World War I 76; title: 4. "The most dangerous of all Negro journals": Federal Efforts to Silence; title: the Chicago Defender 118; title: 5. "Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP; title: under Suspicion 132; title: 6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ; title: under Attack 149; title: 7. "Rabid and inflammatory": Further Attacks on the Pen; title: and Pulpit 164; title: 8. "Spreading enemy propaganda": Alien Enemies, Spies,; title: and Subversives 188; title: 9. "Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the; title: Moens Case 199; title: 10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during; title: World War I 226; title: Epilogue. "The Negro is 'seeing red'": From the World War into; title: the Red Scare 270.