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Geoff Ward talked about the legacies of racial violence in America, particularly during the Jim Crow era. He is a professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University i…

Chad Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. He talked about the post-war activism of these soldiers, explaining how after figh…

Historian Adriane Lentz-Smith examined how African Americans endured military service during World War I while simultaneously battling the racism of Jim Crow America. She argued that the exp…

University of Minnesota professor Saje Mathieu talked about how World War I impacted African Americans. She argued that the promise of a better life because of military service in the war wa…