The African American Experience in World War One

History, world war and the aftermath in the US and France  

Many African Americans felt that the war they fought in 1918/1919 was not with the Germans but with fellow Americans - white men and women, officers, nurses, the police and the public who did not want to see a them in uniform. These eight books will help you understand > 

1. The Unknown Soldiers : Black American Troops in World War One > https://bit.ly/3fBbKag
2. Rayford W.Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual by Kenneth R. Janken (1993) > https://bit.ly/2N6b8OE 
3. Paris Noir : African Americans in the City of Light by Tyler Stovall > https://bit.ly/2RanXta
4. Scotts Official History of the American Negro in the World War [1] by Mr Emmett J Scott (1919) > https://bit.ly/34vVp0a
5. Torchbearers of Democracy. African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L.Williams > https://bit.ly/3vCwQL7 
6. Too Black, Too White by Ely Green > https://bit.ly/3vHmr0K 
7. Freedom Strugles, African Americans and World War One by Adriane Lentz-Smith  > https://bit.ly/3pbaAp1 
8. Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces by Addie W Hunton and Kathryn M Johnson (1997) Introduction by Adele Logan Alexander > https://bit.ly/3fZjZM9 

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