Torchbearers of democracy: African American soldiers in the World War I era

Introduction

Part I: War. Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service ; The "race question" : the U.S. government and the training experiences of African American soldiers ; The hell of war : African American soldiers in labor and combat ; Les soldats noir : France, Black military service, and the challenges of internationalism and diaspora

Part II: Peace? Waging peace : the end of the war and the hope of democracy ; The war at home : African American veterans and violence in the long "red summer" ; Soldiers to "new Negroes" : African American veterans and postwar racial militancy ; Lest we forget : the war and African American soldiers in history and memory

Epilogue.