Addle Waites Hunton (1875-1943) was an activist for the rights of African Americans during the first half of the twentieth century. Her husband, William Alphaeu

The story of Y.M.C.A work among African-American troops in France during World War I.

For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial Afric

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone