Sable Soldiersis the story of those African heritage men and the many women who would join them to contribute greatly to the war effort at home and abroad. Despite the harsh discrimination of the 19th century spilling over into the start of the 20th century and WWI, African American men and...
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Obama said that the soldiers, one Jewish and one African-American, were not recognized during their lifetimes with the nation's highest military honor because of discrimination. Today’s ceremony at the White House is part of an ongoing effort to recognize previously overlooked, deserving recipients...
Heroism: Women gave them to soldiers as trophies when they returned home Loss: Women wore them to show they had lost husbands and fathers Cowardice: Women gave them to non-uniformed men to shame them Peace: Women wore them to protest the war "White feather campaigns" in Britain were used ...
Indeed, many African American soldiers returned from the war armed with a renewed determination to fight segregation and a near-constant barrage of brutality. A postal officialwrote at the timethat “As far back as the first movement of the American troops to France the negro publicists began to...
Jamaican born leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who championed African American workers and black separatism. Adolph Zukor Jewish immigrant from Hungary who was a fur salesman and then invited in five cent theaters in Manhattan. Ended up founding Paramount Pictures, signing emerging...
and King George V, and who was known as one of the primary powers-behind-the-throne of his era; and Cecil Rhodes, the enormously wealthy diamond magnate whose exploits in South Africa and ambition to transform the African continent would earn him the nickname of “Colossus” by the satirists...
1917. This photograph features French and American soldiers and some cooks who are preparing a meal in giant pots on the left. A man sitting in front holds a small puppy. November 1, 1917. A large group of Allied soldiers attend mass in a forest near Moneco, France with a makeshift ...
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On the Great War- my grandfather never made it overseas but contracted African Sleeping Sickness in the camps. My wife’s grandfather’s unit was actually boarding the troop trains for port of embarkation the day the armistice was announced – they told everyone to go home !