Good evening. First of all, thank you, all, for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a little bit of a channel. I think its going to be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting world war i and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by smithsonian books, we return fighting is a collection of essays that chronicle the experiences of men and women who serve the country on the battlefield as well as on the home front and their struggles for civil rights. One of the many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was decades away, world war i established important questions of citizenship that paied the way toward future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by uty director and editor of we return fighting which includes outstanding scholarship and images and the images are really very powerful of american
They really were prepared forbear as you would say, and so a word had we talk to this man about hayward about not retaliating against any kind of racial epithets or even physical assault. Its interesting, some of the guys from the 27th division were down there as well, thats the New York National guard. Its interesting that this black regiment is recognized in new york state but its never an organic part of the New York National guard 27th division. And, in fact, its called colored in that regiment, but its also reggae did radiated in a professional brigade of the fourth provisional brigade so its like a detached advantage. It was never really a part. The 27th division was done in spartanburg but the 15th New York National guard was separate from them even in spartanburg. They were there at the same time but some of the men actually stood up for the black soldiers of the 15th New York National guard. Then theres an incident that involved the turning point. They said weve got to get the
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