Loyalty in time of trial : the African American experience during World War I / Nina Mjagkij.

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Mjagkij, Nina, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: African-American history seriesPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 225 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780742570450
0742570452
0742570444
9780742570443
9786613912565
6613912565
1283600110
9781283600118

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Loyalty in time of trialDDC classification:

940.3089/96073 22

LOC classification:

D639.N4

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Contents:

The land of Jim Crow : African Americans on the eve of World War I -- From field to factory : the wartime migration of African Americans -- Fighting to fight : the struggle for Black officers and combat soldiers -- Raising a Jim Crow army : the mobilization and training of African American Troops -- Over there : African American soldiers in France -- Closing ranks? African Americans on the home front -- Epilogue : returning to racism.

Summary: Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were determined to fight for equality. These two factors forced America to confront the impact of segregation and racism. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the ""Great War.""</spa.

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Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were determined to fight for equality. These two factors forced America to confront the impact of segregation and racism. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the ""Great War.""</spa.

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