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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455009703321

Autore

Kornweibel Theodore

Titolo

Investigate everything [[electronic resource] ] : federal efforts to compel Black loyalty during World War I / / Theodore Kornweibel, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06300-6

9786612063008

0-253-10923-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

940.4/03

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - African Americans

World War, 1914-1918 - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Prologue. "Patriotism and Loyalty Presuppose Protection -- and Liberty" 1 -- 1. "It became necessary to investigate everything": The Birth of Modem -- Political Intelligence 10 -- 2. "Very full of the anti-war spirit": Fears of Enemy Subversion during -- World War I 37 -- 3. "Slackers, Delinquents, and Deserters": African Americans and Draft -- Enforcement during World War I 76 -- 4. "The most dangerous of all Negro journals": Federal Efforts to Silence -- the Chicago Defender 118 -- 5. "Every word is loaded with sedition": The Crisis and the NAACP -- under Suspicion 132 -- 6. "I thank my God for the persecution": The Church of God in Christ -- under Attack 149 -- 7. "Rabid and inflammatory": Further Attacks on the Pen -- and Pulpit 164 -- 8. "Spreading enemy propaganda": Alien Enemies, Spies, -- and Subversives 188 -- 9. "Perhaps you will be shot": Sex, Spies, Science, and the -- Moens Case 199 -- 10. "Negro Subversion": Army Intelligence Investigations during -- World War I 226 -- Epilogue. "The Negro is 'seeing red'": From the World War into -- the Red Scare 270.