Category: Week 2 – 1

As this ad indicates, supporting the war by buying war bonds and supporting a federal law against lynching (which targeted African Americans more than anyone else) were “conflicts” that were part of World War I (as covered by Chad Williams on Africana Age). (If you comment on this ad, it is an “extra”; your responses to classmates are required.)

http://hist314online.ferrellhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/WWI-bonds-and-Dyer-bill.pdf

This cartoon from an African American newspaper demonstrates some of the conflicts that are covered in the online article about blacks in World War I. (If you comment on this ad, it is an “extra”; your responses to classmates are required.)

http://hist314online.ferrellhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/East-St.-Louis-riot-cartoon-NY-Age.pdf