Black Veterans and Civil Rights After World War I

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Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled primarily as menial laborers in segregated units. Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millions of digitized military and NAACP records, we document the pioneering role…

This story appeared on marginalrevolution.com, 2025-10-08 04:54:43.
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