The Harlem Hellfighters of World War One
Dan Snow's History Hit
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African American Veterans of the First World War
Four ill american men and women are going to serve in the military during bob one two million will go overseas. Many of these young men, they it sound so wid for us, cause of coust many of us,. now, bulike shes id, definitly have taken the job unloading equipment rather than fighting on the front line. Yet there is a strong desire within the overall african rian community. These men are going to be treated horribly. They might not be in combat, but a lot of their officers are going to come from the same sort of class that were slave owners of the 18 sixties and earlier.
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