National WWI Museum and Memorial

How WWI Changed America: African Americans in WWI

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African Americans made substantial contributions in WWI, on both the front lines and the home front. By 1920, nearly one million Black Americans left the rural South in a movement called The Great Migration which would transform the economic, social and political landscape of the U.S. This short video gives the "sparknotes" version of contributions - and social impact - of African American service in WWI in the fight for full equality,

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