Title
Freedom Struggles : African Americans and World War I / Adriane Lentz-Smith.
ISBN
9780674054189
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674054189 doi
Call Number
D639.N4
Summary
For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation.
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System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction: Studying War
1. World on Fire
2. Fighting the Southern Huns
3. Men in the Making
4. At War in the Terrestrial Heaven
5. The World's Experience
6. Saving Sergeant Caldwell
7. Forewarned Is Forearmed
Epilogue: The Fruit of Conquest
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index