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African American Soldiers in World War I
A photograph of an African American woman, Kathryn M. Johnson, in France posing with African American soldiers, ca. 1918-1920.

A photograph of an African American woman, Kathryn M. Johnson, in France posing with African American soldiers, ca. 1918-1920.

Kathryn M. Johnson coauthored a book with Addie W. Hunton called Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920), a memoir of the two women’s experiences working with the YMCA to serve black troops overseas during World War I.

Citation Information
“Kathryn M. Johnson, co-author of ‘Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces,’ in France during World War I with African American soldiers,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/6af67b670787683f72053917ee72654a.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of Minnesota Libraries via Minnesota Digital Library.
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Item 2 of 11 in the Primary Source Set African American Soldiers in World War I

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A photograph of African American soldiers with French children in France, ca. 1915-1920.
A photograph of an African American woman, Kathryn M. Johnson, in France posing with African American soldiers, ca. 1918-1920.
A photograph of African American soldiers in France, some playing board games, ca. 1914-1918.
A glass plate slide of African American soldiers in Georgia, ca. 1918.
An excerpt from a 1921 memoir by Horace Pippin that provides a 1918 journal entry from his time fighting in France.
A letter from First Lieutenant James W. Alston to H. H. Brimley on November 1, 1918 about being only black officer in a hotel in France.
A letter from First Lieutenant James W. Alston to H. H. Brimley praising black soldiers, September 3, 1918.
A letter from First Lieutenant James W. Alston to H. H. Brimley on October 6, 1918 about being shot by a machine gun in the war.
An excerpt from Complete History of the Colored Soldiers in the World War, ca. 1919, discussing Sergeant Henry Johnson.
A 2004 proclamation from Spartanburg, SC, honoring the 369th regiment Harlem Hellfighters.
An excerpt from Colored Soldiers, a 1923 work of fiction by W. Irwin MacIntyre about black soldiers during the war.

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