LEADER 03302nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910814890203321 005 20230126205809.0 010 $a9786613912565 010 $a1-283-60011-0 010 $a0-7425-7045-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241779 035 $a(EBL)1021967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711540 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11400298 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711540 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693325 035 $a(PQKB)11684943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1021967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1021967 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602267 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL391256 035 $a(OCoLC)853359633 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30667472 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30667472 035 $a(OCoLC)1412621283 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241779 100 $a20101119d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLoyalty in time of trial $ethe African American experience during World War I /$fNina Mjagkij 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aAfrican American history series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7425-7043-6 311 $a0-7425-7044-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aNearly 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.""