Overseas with the American Expeditionary sources are it forces. 40,000 of those were combat troops and another 160,000 did mainly labor. The folks who roll home about their experiences from the labor battalion and from combat units talk about two things. The talk about the difficulty of fighting for democracy in a jim crow army. And they talk about the investments of many of their fellow white soldiers and making sure that they do not have for theirectations own Citizenship Rights after world war i. They also talk a lot about how france has opened up the world for them in a variety of different ways. Their experience with french people fighting alongside the , for al troops of color segment that was given over to the french army for this duration of the war, fighting under commanders who do not have the same kind of investment in american White Supremacy, it often made them realize that the and in somebe, places was very different from the racial system and orders of power that they ha
40,000 of those were combat troops and another 160,000 did mainly labor. The folks who roll home about their experiences from the labor battalion and from combat units talk about two things. The talk about the difficulty of fighting for democracy in a jim crow army. And they talk about the investments of many of their fellow white soldiers and making sure that they do not have rising expectations for their own Citizenship Rights after world war i. They also talk a lot about how france has opened up the world for them in a variety of different ways. Their experience with french people fighting alongside the colonial troops of color, for a segment that was given over to the french army for this duration of the war, fighting under commanders who do not have the same kind of investment in american White Supremacy, it often made them realize that the world could be, and in some places was very different from the racial system and orders of power that they had to experience for most of their