Freedom Struggles - African Americans and World War I

Informationen zum Autor Adriane Lentz-Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. Klappentext 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. Lentz-Smith narrates the efforts of these African American soldiers to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service. Zusammenfassung 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. Lentz-Smith narrates the efforts of these African American soldiers to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Illustrations * Introduction: Studying War * World on Fire * Fighting the Southern Huns * Men in the Making * At War in the Terrestrial Heaven * The World's Experience * Saving Sergeant Caldwell * Forewarned is Forearmed * Epilogue: The Fruit of Conquest * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Adriane Lentz-Smith, Adriane Danette Lentz-Smith
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780674062054
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06205-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, First World War, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1910 to c 1919, History of the Americas, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General