Torchbearers of democracy : African American soldiers in World War I era / Chad L. Williams.

Author: Williams, Chad L. (Chad Louis), 1976-

Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Descriptionxiii, 452 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service -- The "race question" : the U.S. government and the training experiences of African American soldiers -- The hell of war : African American soldiers in labor and combat -- Les soldats noir : France, Black military service, and the challenges of internationalism and diaspora -- Waging peace : the end of the war and the hope of democracy -- The war at home : African American veterans and violence in the long "red summer" -- Soldiers to "new Negroes" : African American veterans and postwar racial militancy -- Lest we forget : the war and African American soldiers in history and memory.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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