03329nam 2200709 a 450 991078577370332120230126205809.097866139125651-283-60011-00-7425-7045-2(CKB)2670000000241779(EBL)1021967(SSID)ssj0000711540(PQKBManifestationID)11400298(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711540(PQKBWorkID)10693325(PQKB)11684943(MiAaPQ)EBC1021967(Au-PeEL)EBL1021967(CaPaEBR)ebr10602267(CaONFJC)MIL391256(OCoLC)853359633(MiAaPQ)EBC30667472(Au-PeEL)EBL30667472(OCoLC)1412621283(EXLCZ)99267000000024177920101119d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLoyalty in time of trial[electronic resource] the African American experience during World War I /Nina Mjagkij1st ed.Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.c20111 online resource (250 p.)African American history seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7425-7043-6 0-7425-7044-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The land of Jim Crow : African Americans on the eve of World War I -- From field to factory : the wartime migration of African Americans -- Fighting to fight : the struggle for Black officers and combat soldiers -- Raising a Jim Crow army : the mobilization and training of African American Troops -- Over there : African American soldiers in France -- Closing ranks? African Americans on the home front -- Epilogue : returning to racism.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. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were determined to fight for equality. These two factors forced America to confront the impact of segregation and racism. 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.""</spaAfrican American history series (Lanham, Md.)World War, 1914-1918Participation, African AmericanAfrican American soldiersHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditions20th centuryRacismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesRace relationsWorld War, 1914-1918Participation, African American.African American soldiersHistoryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsRacismHistory940.3089/96073Mjagkij Nina1961-1538423MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785773703321Loyalty in time of trial3788434UNINA