Nina Mjagkij

Loyalty in Time of Trial

The African American Experience During World War I

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Produktbeschreibung

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. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War."

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Produktdetails

• The African American Experience Series
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780742570443
• ISBN-10: 0742570444
• Artikelnr.: 41612560

Autorenporträt

Nina Mjagkij is professor of history at Ball State University. She serves as coeditor of Rowman & Littlefield's African American History Series, as well as director of Ball State's African-American Studies Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology Introduction Chapter 1: The Land of Jim Crow: African Americans
at the Eve of World War I Chapter 2: From Field to Factory: The Wartime
Migration of African Americans Chapter 3: Fighting to Fight: The Struggle
for Black Officers and Combat Soldiers Chapter 4: Raising a Jim Crow Army:
The Mobilization and Training of African American Troops Chapter 5: Over
There: African American Soldiers in France Chapter 6: Closing Ranks?
African Americans on the Home Front Epilogue: Returning to Racism Documents
Bibliographic Essay