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A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in
World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their
lives and their communities after they returned home. This stunning
book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful
essays that together highlight the efforts of African Americans
during World War I. As in many previous wars, black soldiers served
the United States during the war, but they were assigned to
segregated units and often relegated to labor and support duties
rather than direct combat. Indeed this was the central paradox of
the war: these men and women fought abroad to secure rights they
did not yet have at home in the States. Black veterans' work during
the conflict--and the respect they received from French allies but
not their own US military--empowered them to return home and
continue the fight for those rights. The book also presents the
work of black citizens on the home front. Together their efforts
laid the groundwork for later advances in the civil rights
movement. We Return Fighting reminds readers not only of the
central role of African American soldiers in the war that first
made their country a world power. It also reveals the way the
conflict shaped African American identity and lent fuel to their
longstanding efforts to demand full civil rights and to stake their
place in the country's cultural and political landscape.
The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of
African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September
2021 With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian
Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian
Spencer Crew An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring
legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction-a
comprehensive story of Black Americans' struggle for human rights
and dignity and the failure of the nation to fulfill its promises
of freedom, citizenship, and justice. In the aftermath of the Civil
War, millions of free and newly freed African Americans were
determined to define themselves as equal citizens in a country
without slavery-to own land, build secure families, and educate
themselves and their children. Seeking to secure safety and
justice, they successfully campaigned for civil and political
rights, including the right to vote. Across an expanding America,
Black politicians were elected to all levels of government, from
city halls to state capitals to Washington, DC. But those gains
were short-lived. By the mid-1870s, the federal government stopped
enforcing civil rights laws, allowing white supremacists to use
suppression and violence to regain power in the Southern states.
Black men, women, and children suffered racial terror, segregation,
and discrimination that confined them to second-class citizenship,
a system known as Jim Crow that endured for decades. More than a
century has passed since the revolutionary political, social, and
economic movement known as Reconstruction, yet its profound
consequences reverberate in our lives today. Make Good the Promises
explores five distinct yet intertwined legacies of
Reconstruction-Liberation, Violence, Repair, Place, and Belief-to
reveal their lasting impact on modern society. It is the story of
Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hiram Revels, Ida
B. Wells, and scores of other Black men and women who reshaped a
nation-and of the persistence of white supremacy and the
perpetuation of the injustices of slavery continued by other means
and codified in state and federal laws. With contributions by
leading scholars, and illustrated with 80 images from the
exhibition, Make Good the Promises shows how Black Lives Matter,
#SayHerName, antiracism, and other current movements for repair
find inspiration from the lessons of Reconstruction. It touches on
questions critical then and now: What is the meaning of freedom and
equality? What does it mean to be an American? Powerful and
eye-opening, it is a reminder that history is far from past; it
lives within each of us and shapes our world and who we are.
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Double Exposure V 3 - African American Women (Paperback)
National Museum of African American History and Culture; Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch; Contributions by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Natasha Trethewey
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Volume 3 of Double Exposure highlights NMAAHC's rich collection of
photographs of African American women, some of whom are cultural
icons. This volume demonstrates the dignity, joy, heartbreak,
commitment, and sacrifice of women of all ages and backgrounds,
with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beverly Conley, Robert
Galbraith, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller, P.H. Polk, Joe
Schwartz, and Milton Williams. Aligned to Common Core Standards
Natasha Trethewey was the United States Poet Laureate 2012-2013.
She has written an original essay and reprinted two poems for this
title. Kinshasha Holman Conwill is the deputy director of the
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and
Culture.
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