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A 3 page book review. From Slavery to Freedom, the classic African American history text by John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., offers a comprehensive overview of the history of African descended people in the United States. This text begins with African experience and the slave trade, however, this examination of the text focuses on the history of black America in the twentieth century, beginning with chapter 16, which records the experiences of African Americans during World War I. No additional sources cited.
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of African descended people in the United States. This text begins with African experience and the slave trade, however, this examination of the text focuses on the history of black
America in the twentieth century, beginning with chapter 16, which records the experiences of African Americans during World War I. Despite the injustice of discrimination and continued lynching
of blacks in the South, black men were some of the first to volunteer for active service. The authors first record the problems faced by black men in regards to
the draft, the struggle to serve as officers as well as enlisted men, and the creation of black army divisions. They then record black combat experience, which includes being harassed
by German propaganda regarding the racism that they faced in the US. Despite the fact that German propaganda urged them to switch sides, no African Americans deserted (Franklin and Moss
333). African Americans on the home front were no less patriotic and purchased more than $250 million worth of bonds and stamps in support of the US war effort (Franklin
and Moss 339). Black soldiers, after fighting for their country, returned to find a newly revitalized Ku Klux Klan and an entrenched climate of racism. Franklin and Moss tell
of race riots and voices rising in protest, led by such African Americans as W.E.B. Du Bois. An ad placed by the NAACP in several leading newspaper in the 1922
called upon America to be ashamed of the fact that 3436 people had been lynched between 1889 and 1922 (Franklin and Moss 357). The authors also record how, in the
midst of racism and violence, African American artistic and intellectual achievement flourished in Harlem, and, also, how African Americans were affected by and coped with the Great Depression. Franklin
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