Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: W. Allison Sweeney] HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR HIS SPLENDID RECORD IN THE BATTLE ZONES OF EUROPE INCLUDING A RESUME OF HIS PAST SERVICES TO HIS COUNTRY IN THE WARS OF THE REVOLUTION, OF 1812, THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, THE INDIAN WARS ON THE FRONTIER, THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, AND THE LATE IMBROGLIO WITH MEXICO. BY W. ALLISON SWEENEY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF THE CHICAGO DEFENDER. PROFUSELY AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED 1919 THIS HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR IS REINFORCED BY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT INCLUDING TRIBUTES FROM FRENCH AND AMERICAN COMMANDERS * * * * * SPOKEN AND WRITTEN WORDS BY J. E. MORELAND INTERNATIONAL SECRETARY Y.M.C.A. ROBERT SENGSTACKE ABBOTT EDITOR CHICAGO DEFENDER RALPH TYLER EX-THIRD AUDITOR THE NAVY JULIUS ROSENWALD PHILANTHROPIST COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG UNITED STATES ARMY WILLIS O. TYLER MEMBER LOS ANGELES BAR CAPT. R.P. ROOTS VETERAN SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR * * * * * WITH A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE 370th "OLD EIGHTH" IN THE WORLD WAR FROM THE COUNTRY'S CALL TO THE DAY OF ITS MUSTERING OUT BY CAPT. JOHN H. PATTON, ADJUTANT HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE GREAT WORLD WAR * * * * * CONTENTS Chapter I. SPIRITUAL EMANCIPATION OF NATIONS. THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION--WORLD SHOCKS TO STIR THE WOULD HEART--FALSE DOCTRINES OF THE HUN--THE IRON HAND CONCEALED--THE WORLD BEGINS TO AWAKEN--GERMAN DESIGNS REVEALED--RUMBLINGS IN ADVANCE OF THE STORM--TRAGEDY THAT HASTENED THE DAY--TOLSTOY'S PROPHECY--VINDICATION OF NEGRO FAITH IN PROMISES OF THE LORD--DAWN OF FREEDOM FOR ALL RACES Chapter II. HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. LIKENED TO BELSHAZZER--THE KAISER'S FEASTS--IN HIS HEART BARBARIC PRIDE OF THE POTENTATES OF OLD--GERMAN MADNESS FOR WAR--INSOLENT DEMANDS--FORTY-EIGHT HOURS TO PREVENT A WORLD WAR--COMMENT OF STATESMEN AND LEADERS--THE WAR STARTS--ITALY BREAKS HER ALLIANCE--GERMANIC POWERS WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING--SPIRIT WINS OVER MATERIALISM--CIVILIZATION'S LAMP DIMMED BUT NOT DARKENED Chapter III. MILITARISM AND AUTOCRACY DOOMED. GERMANY'S MACHINE--HER SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR TO MOLD SOLDIERS--INFLUENCE ON THOUGHT AND LIVES OF THE PEOPLE--MILITARISM IN THE HOME--THE STATUS OF WOMAN--FALSE THEORIES AND FALSE GODS--THE SYSTEM ORDAINED TO PERISH--WAR'S SHOCKS--AMERICA INCLINES TO NEUTRALITY--GERMAN AND FRENCH TREATMENT OF NEUTRALS CONTRASTED--EXPERIENCES OF AMERICANS ABROAD AND ENROUTE HOME--STATUE OF LIBERTY TAKES ON NEW BEAUTY--BLOOD OF NEGRO AND WHITE TO FLOW Chapter IV. Awakening of America.