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

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. Prior to World War I, most African Americans did not challenge the racial status quo. Following the war, emboldened by their mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Main Author: Mjagkij, Nina, 1961- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2011]
©2011
Series:African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
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Physical Description:xxiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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