Title: Torchbearers of democracy
Subtitle: African American soldiers and the era of the First World War
Description: The author connects the history of African American soldiers and veterans to issues such as the obligations of citizenship, combat and labor, diaspora and internationalism, homecoming and racial violence, "New Negro" militancy, and African American historical memories of the war. Democracy may have been distant from the everyday lives of African Americans at the dawn of the war, but it nevertheless remained a powerful ideal that sparked the hopes of black people throughout the country for societal change. Torchbearers of Democracy reclaims the legacy of black soldiers and establishes the World War I era as a defining moment in the history of African Americans and peoples of African descent more broadly.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, African American Participation, Citizenship, African Americas, Civil rights, Racism, Political aspects of Racism, Social conditions, African Americans, African American soldiers, History, World war, 1914-1918, african americans, African americans, social conditions, African americans, civil rights, African American, Political aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century