“If they were placed next to the white units, they [African Americans] were basically trench diggers, dig the trenches, get rid of the waste…The French said, ‘Hey, we’ll take those Black ...

In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American ... of an amazing WWI poster he owns ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating a powerful exhibit titled “More than a ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

This play talks about the Harlem Hellfighters, (African-American and Latino jazz musicians of the 369th Infantry in WWI). It ...

The experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1. videoThe experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1 Historian David Olusoga examines the racial prejudice experienced by ...