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19 lut 2018 · Du Bois spent three months in France between December 1918 and March 1919, where, in addition to organizing a landmark Pan-African Congress, he met with African American troops and collected documents for his book.
From the opening guns of August 1914 until his final days, Du Bois wrote extensively about the war and reflected on its significance. For Du Bois, the war marked not only an epochal historical event, it was deeply personal.
In the aftermath of World War I, W.E.B. DuBois urged returning soldiers to continue fighting for democracy at home. 1 We are returning from war! The Crisis and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle.
4 kwi 2023 · Du Bois traveled to France after the armistice to interview Black troops. “I saw the mud and dirt of the trenches; I heard from the mouths of soldiers the kind of treatment that Black men got in the American army,” he said.
8 mar 2018 · While most observers pointed to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Du Bois asserted that the real cause lay in “the wild quest for Imperial expansion among colored races between Germany, England and France primarily, and Belgium, Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary in lesser degree.”
In a July 1918 editorial in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urged African Americans to set aside their differences with their countrymen over the nation’s treatment of its black citizens and “close ranks” in the war against Imperial Germany and its Allies.
This study explores the innate tension over African-American participation in the Great War. Dr. W. Ε. B. Du Bois, as revealed by his writing in The Crisis, held the paradoxical notion of African-Americans participating in a war for "freedom" and "democracy" in Europe, when they felt themselves bereft of these at home in the United States.
