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For many of the 200,000 African American soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This work explores how WWI mobilized a generation.

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2010
    Harvard University Press · 336 pages · 9780674054189
  • Other · English · 2009
    Harvard University Press · 336 pages · 9780674035928
World War, 1914-1918Race relationsAfrican American ParticipationRacismUnited StatesAfrican American soldiersSocial conditionsUnited States. Army