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Excerpt from The American Negro Soldier With the Red Hand of France IN the great World War, as in all other wars in which this country has been engaged, the negro has proven himself to be an interesting as well as an important factor. On January lst, 1918, when it was announced that the negro soldiers would be mobilized and sent overseas to take part in the struggle, the eyes of the world were turned on the American negro. The patriotism and fidelity of these people had been rather doubtfully viewed by those who had not been closely related to them. When the call for volunteers came the negro National Guard units rapidly recruit ed to war strength, and when the draft came they responded to their country's call. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.