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One particular article in this issue talks about how uneducated some African American soldiers were when they were called in to war. Those who were in Georgia thought that the war was only miles away from Atlanta, but didn't even know that Atlanta was the capital of Georgia. Not only this, but they did not know any countries that the war was taking place in, or even what the war was about. This ties in to how African Americans dealt with the war and what their expectations were. | One particular article in this issue talks about how uneducated some African American soldiers were when they were called in to war. Those who were in Georgia thought that the war was only miles away from Atlanta, but didn't even know that Atlanta was the capital of Georgia. Not only this, but they did not know any countries that the war was taking place in, or even what the war was about. This ties in to how African Americans dealt with the war and what their expectations were. | ||
| − | ===Volume 17, Number 2 - December, 1918=== | + | ===[http://library.brown.edu/cds/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1292951667108625&view=pageturner '''Volume 17, Number 2'''] - December, 1918=== |
Within this issue there is an overall theme of patriotism, with the inclusion of the song manuscript for "America the Beautiful" and many articles revolved around an overall sense of love for the United States. The positive feeling that is evident is most likely an effect of the ending of World War 1, this had most citizens in good spirits. One soldier still in France at this time sent in a letter to "The Crisis" that ended on a good note with "colored America has more than justified the hopes of those who have always believed in it, and more than earned all that we have demanded for it. I take off my hat to the courage and devoted patriotism of black men in this war." | Within this issue there is an overall theme of patriotism, with the inclusion of the song manuscript for "America the Beautiful" and many articles revolved around an overall sense of love for the United States. The positive feeling that is evident is most likely an effect of the ending of World War 1, this had most citizens in good spirits. One soldier still in France at this time sent in a letter to "The Crisis" that ended on a good note with "colored America has more than justified the hopes of those who have always believed in it, and more than earned all that we have demanded for it. I take off my hat to the courage and devoted patriotism of black men in this war." | ||
