Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality by Jeffrey T. Sammons, John H. Morrow Jr.

Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality

Jeffrey T. Sammons, John H. Morrow Jr.

630 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status...

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