African Americans Contribution To World War One

Before WORLD WAR I, military service represented a source of black pride. Black educators, clergymen, and the press frequently referred to Negro heroes of America’s past wars. After the Civil War, the U.S, Army maintained four regular Negro regiments –the 9th and 10th Calvary and the 24th and 25th Infantry. These units included veterans of the civil war and the frontier Indian fighting regiments. Retired sergeants often became respected, conservative leaders in their communities. This history set a foundation for black support and involvement in America’s future wars.

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new na-tion, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” a quote by America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, directly recalling how equality was the catalyst for the conception of America. It’s a universal right that should be known by all, but it was barely an option in our country for the African American faction almost a century ago. Chained, chastised and condemned, the African American had to surpass through radical odds to get to a mediocre amount of respect. When World War I first began, many citizens of America saw it as a seemingly distant European conflict that they couldn’t be bothered with.

Have you ever fought for something you believed in? There was a war where many states that were fighting for their rights and what they believed in. They all had different opinions, but many states fought together to become stronger. Texans fought in the Civil War because their love for Texas and their family, for states’ rights, and to protect the slaves.

This investigation evaluates to what extent did the Navajo code talkers aid the American military during WWII? In order to assess the extent to which these soldiers assisted the American military during WWII, this investigation focuses on their involvement in transmitting military messages in their native tongue, and the events surrounding these transmissions. In addition, the contribution of other Native American code talkers is considered and compared to that of the Navajos specifically within the investigation.

The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankind 's inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the institution of slavery had become firmly established in America. Blacks worked in the tobacco fields of Virginia, in the rice fields of South Carolina, and toiled in small farms and shops in the North. Foner and Mahoney report in A House Divided, America in the Age of Lincoln that, "In 1776, slaves composed forty percent of the population of the colonies from Maryland south to Georgia, but well below ten percent in the colonies to the

For African Americans World War I was one of the most transformative moment. At first the war seemed not to impact African Americans much. Little did they know that the war would directly impact them all, both women and men, African Americans from the North and the South, but in this case the most affected were the Southern African Americans. At that time African Americans knew that they had to try to struggle for something they called black freedom. Even though many African Americans did not participate in many important issues like voting or had well paid jobs their hard work and commitment gave them the opportunity to give their families a better future economically and education wise.

Soldiers where the reason the civil war was fought and won by the Union. The Unification of the United state of America and the abolition of slavery came because the union allowed more that just white men to fight.In 1862, a law was passed in the union that allowed African Americans to serve in the Army of the United states. Before African American men were allowed to serve in the army some ex slave became guides in the south because they knew the area well;while others joined the navy. By the end of the Civil war 2000,000 African Americans served in the US Army and Navy and 37,000 lost their lives defending the Union. African American Participation in the civil war was important because they helped the Union defeat the confederacy, fought

During the Civil War, Georgia seceded from the United States and joined the Confederacy. In 1865, the Confederacy collapsed and the Civil War came to an end. Following the Civil War, the city of Atlanta was destroyed. Despite the political and socioeconomic struggles during the Reconstruction Era, Atlanta began rebuilding and became an up-and-coming metropolitan city where both whites and African-Americans could live together, “The white man and the negro have lived together in this city more peacefully and in better spirit than in any other city, in either the North or South.” As Atlanta’s economy was growing, so was its population. Atlanta began to experience a high influx of African-American migrants from surrounding states, and an increase in tensions between whites and African-Americans began to grow. As African-Americans obtained rights, competition amongst whites and blacks increased and tensions only further escalated between the two groups. In September of 1906, the racial hostility between whites and African-Americans resulted in a violent race riot. Although Atlanta was once the city where whites and blacks could live together in racial harmony, the Atlanta Race Riots of 1906 changed the relationship between the two groups.

On December 7 1941, Japanese forces bombed the Pearl Harbor army base in the territory of Hawaii and sent the United States into a frenzied state. The day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor the US declared war on Japan and entered World War II. During WWII almost the entire country devoted themselves to the war cause, however, white males were not the only large contributors to the war. Millions of minorities would also back the war; Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and women played an astronomical role for the United States during the Second World War. What did American minorities do to be a part of the war effort during WWII?

In World War One the role that African-Americans had in the war served as a way to show that they are equal citizens and deserved to be treated like anyone else. Even with a country rejecting the blacks they still sought to bleed and risk their lives. The racism that was present during the war was so great and many African-American war efforts were diminished and twisted by whites. Even after all of this blacks were still eager to enlist in war and prove themselves worthy of serving. One may think that this abuse would deter a black man from serving. The African-Americans troops who wanted to serve wanted to prove themselves to their white neighbor even with the prevalent racism the whites showed. African Americans fighting in World War I

According to the statistics, they show that “ 25,000 Native Americans relentlessly fought in World War II: 21,767 in the Army, 1,910 in the Navy, 874 in the Marines, 121 in the Coast Guard, and several hundred Native American women as nurses ”. The most exceptional formation were the Navajo Indians, they were code talkers. They used their own language to help the Americans keep their plans a secret. Surprisingly the Navajo code was the only one the Japanese couldn't break. Their assignment was topnotch precarious, they created a memorized special code. They underwent some of the most substantial fights and they had to remain harmonious trying to crack the code. Many American Indian Code Talkers in World War II

An era, that makes us question our history and the actions of the ones that committed the crimes. Till this day, we study the past to try to better understand our history in order to prevent repetition. African Americans lived a life of torture and control. Every aspect of their life was supervised, including their clothing. Slaves were forced to dress all similar, and were provided with minimal inexpensive fabric to cover their bodies. Disallowing them to choose their personal attire stripped African Americans from their identity. African Americans went through horrific period of time, forcing them to live inhumanely and poorly. `

African Americans played an important role in the military during World War II. The events of World War II helped to force social changes, which included the desegregation of the U.S. military forces. This was a major event in the history of Civil Rights in the United States. One of the most famous groups of African American soldiers was the Tuskegee Airmen. They were the first group of African American pilots in the U.S. military. They flew thousands of bombing and fighting missions over Italy during the war. The group compiled an impressive record, primarily in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, despite facing the struggle that the Tuskegee Airmen been through is evident in the involvement of the African American soldiers during WWI and WWII because of the accomplishment that the African American achieved in their battalions, however, the U. S. government betrayed the Legacy of the African American Soldier and didn't notify the American public about everything that was going on the battlefield between 1910-1950.

Finally there were the African Americans who also struggled during the times of the war in the American home front. Back then, the United States military was still highly segregated and there were barely any African Americans who fought in the armies and were part of the military forces. Those who did get to fight in the military barely held high positions and fought in distinct theaters of war. With this very small effort from the African American, they continued to fight for their equal liberties across the nations and the war did give them the opportunity to get what they wanted. Beginning in 1941, there were less than 4,000 African Americans who had served in the military and only twelve of those men had become officers. By 1945 however,

During the Civil War both enslaved and free African Americans played an integral part t to end slavery. After President Lincoln passed the emancipation law it gave new hopes for the slaves to try their freedom by running away from the slaveholders and joining the army. More than women, men took advantage of the freedom to leave the plantation and move to a different place or city. Fredrick Douglass encouraged African Americans to join the army. Many slaves joined the Union Army to runaway from the South.