Loyalty in Time of Trial: The African American Experience During World War I - Paperback

by Nina Mjagkij (Author), Jacqueline M. Moore (Other), Nina Mjagkij (Other)

Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the "Great War."

Author Biography

Nina Mjagkij is professor of history at Ball State University. She serves as coeditor of Rowman & Littlefield's African American History Series, as well as director of Ball State's African-American Studies Program.