They Left Great Marks on Me African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I

Name: They Left Great Marks on Me African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I
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ISBN: 9780814795361

ISBN-10: 0814795366

ISBN-13: 9780814795361

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kidada E. Williams

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The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what to do with their fallen loved ones: ship them home for burial or leave them permanently in Europe, in makeshift graves that would be eventually transformed into cemeteries in France, Belgium, and England. World War I marked the first war in which the United States government and military took full responsibility for the identification, burial, and memorialization of those killed in battle, and as a result, the process of burying and remembering the dead became intensely political. The government and military attempted to create a patriotic consensus on the historical memory…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 3/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 293
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Kidada E. Williams is Assistant Professor of African American history at Wayne State University



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution": The Terror of Emancipation



"A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence": The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation



"Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed... in My Country": Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell



"If You Can, the Colored Needs Help": Reaching Out from Local Communities



"It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence": Fueling the NAACP's Antilynching Crusade


Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land


Notes


Works Cited


Index


About the Author