Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I

Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I Lentz-Smith Adriane Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2011 ISBN: 9780674062054 Liczba stron: 336 Format: 233 x 162 x 22 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: 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.