The Crisis, May 1919. slate.com
Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters Brass Band, c. 1918. Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture
Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters Brass Band, c. 1918. Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture
The Crisis, May 1919. slate.com
"The increasing number of Negroes in the United States (about 15,000,000) would create for the white race in the Republic a menace of degeneracy were it not that an impassable gulf has benn made between them"
"Although a citizen of the United States, the black man is regarded by the white American as an inferior being"
" The black is constantly being censured for his want of intelligence and discretion"
"The vices of the Negro are a constant menance to the American who has to repress them sternly"
"1. We must prevent the rise of any pronounced degree of intimacy between French officers and black officers...
2. We must not commend too highly the black American troops, particularly in the presence of [white] Americans...
3. We must make a point of keeping the native cantonement population from 'spoiling' the Negroes."
"Familiartiy on the part of white women with black men is furthermore a source of profound regret to our experienced colonials who see in it an over-weening menace to the prestige of the white race."
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