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1. African-American Soldiers in
World War I: PART 1
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3.  B.12.18 Explain the history of slavery, racial and ethnic
discrimination, and efforts to eliminate discrimination in the
United States and elsewhere in the world
 B.12.2 Analyze primary and secondary sources related to a
historical question to evaluate their relevance, make
comparisons, integrate new information with prior knowledge,
and come to a reasoned conclusion
 B.12.15 Identify a historical or contemporary event in which a
person was forced to take an ethical position, such as a
decision to go to war, the impeachment of a president, or a
presidential pardon, and explain the issues involved
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4.  1.Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of
primary and secondary sources, connecting insights
gained from specific details to an understanding of the
text as a whole.
 2. Determine the central ideas or information of a
primary or secondary source; provide an accurate
 summary that makes clear the relationships among the
key details and idea.
 7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of
information presented in diverse formats and media
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in
order to address a question or solve a problem)
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5.  What were race relations like at the onset
of World War I?
 How did President Woodrow Wilson feel
about and act on integration?
 What was the role of African American
Soldiers in World War I?
 Did African Americans bridge racial
tensions through military service?
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6. Background Article:
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwi/arti
cles/fightingforrespect.aspx
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8. “I do approve of the segregation that is being attempted in
several of the departments,” President Wilson wrote in his first
year in office. “I think if you were here on the ground you
would see, as I seem to see, that it is distinctly to the
advantage of the colored people themselves…”
AFRICAN_AMERICANS
Overview of racial policy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_african.html
Progressive Segregation
http://www.academia.org/progressive-segregation/
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9. EARLY 1900’S
WEB Du Bois & William Trotter
Endorse Woodrow Wilson For President
Figuring That His Progressive Viewpoint
About Societal Matters Would Also
Translate Into Racial Justice For Black
People. Wilson Reminded Them About
How Much Of A Mistake They Had Made,
As Black People, In Voting For Him When
He Ordered All Federal Buildings In
Washington DC Resegregated.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-
AjVnRGnbXq0/TV_C6U6zUzI/AAAAAAAADhg/pcwfH
E9_UnU/s1600/Wilson+DuBois+Trotter.bmp Wilson Also Believed That The Film "The
Birth Of A Nation" Was A Fine Piece Of
Cinematic Accuracy And Excellence.
http://withintheblackcommunity.blogspot.com/2011/02/brief-
history-of-black-people-speaking.html
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5719/
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10. The first issue of The Crisis published with a
circulation of 1,000. Taking its name from a poem
by James Russell Lowell, "The Present Crisis," the
magazine was created as the official publication of
the NAACP. Editor Du Bois declared, "the object of
this publication is to set forth those facts and
arguments which show the danger of race
prejudice, particularly as manifested today toward
colored people."
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12. http://books.google.com/books?id=yoWQ72FSLq0C&lpg=PA16&ots=DNs_E0j-
8P&dq=368th%20Infantry%20regiment%20and%20Captain%20Queen&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=368th%20Infantry%20r
egiment%20and%20Captain%20Queen&f=false
Andrew Johnson’s Commanding officer…
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13. http://books.google.com/books?id=yoWQ72FSLq0C&lpg=PA16&ots=DNs_E0j-
8P&dq=368th%20Infantry%20regiment%20and%20Captain%20Queen&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=368th%20Infantry%20r
egiment%20and%20Captain%20Queen&f=false
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16. Background Article:
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwi/arti
cles/fightingforrespect.aspx
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17. True Sons Of Freedom
Charles More than 350,000 African
Gustrine. Americans served in
"True Sons segregated units during
of World War I, mostly as
Freedom." support troops. Several
Color-offset units saw action alongside
poster. French soldiers fighting
Chicago, against the Germans, and
1918. 171 African Americans
Prints and were awarded the French
Photographs Legion of Honor. In
Division. response to protests of
Reproductio discrimination and
n Number: mistreatment from the black
LC-USZC4- community, several
2426 (7-1) hundred African American
men received officers'
training in Des Moines,
Iowa. By October 1917,
over six hundred African
Americans were
commissioned as captains
and first and second
lieutenants.
Charles Gustrine.
"True Sons of Freedom."
Color-offset poster.
Chicago, 1918.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart7.html Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-2426
(7-1)
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18. "They have rights who dare maintain them...
New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good
uncouth;
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep
abreast of Truth..."
PRESENT CRISIS poem by James Russell
Lowell
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/7194/
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19. PBS on the GREAT WAR
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
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20. W.E.B. DuBOIS (Overview video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp5SaVUuS9s
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21. Causes of WWI-Thorough Background lecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIsxGBp_4yk
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