TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lentz-Smith,Adriane
TI  - Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I 
SN  - 9780674035928
AV  - D639.N4 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Military / World War I
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054189
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674054189
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674054189/original
ER  -