TY - BOOK AU - Mjagkij,Nina TI - Loyalty in time of trial: the African American experience during World War I T2 - The African American History Series SN - 9780742570450 AV - D639.N4 U1 - 940.3089/96073 22 PY - 2011///] CY - Lanham PB - Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated KW - United States KW - Army KW - African American troops KW - History KW - 20th century KW - États-Unis KW - Troupes noires américaines KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - fast KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Participation, African American KW - African American soldiers KW - African Americans KW - Social conditions KW - Racism KW - Militaires noirs américains KW - Noirs américains KW - Conditions sociales KW - Racisme KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - World War I KW - bisacsh KW - Armed Forces KW - Military participation KW - African American KW - Race relations KW - Relations raciales KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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.""