Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces
"These patriotic women gave of themselves despite the bigotry of white military officials and hostile reactions...recalled the kinder treatment they received from the French." - Women and the Historical Enterprise in America (2004)
"Hunton and Johnson had the longest active service of any black women in France...were greeted with cries of 'Ooh-la-la' from black soldiers." - American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military (2002)
"Provides insight into...the interactions between the French and the black soldiers...Hunton and Johnson...felt compelled to leave an African-American historical record of the war." - Negritude Women (2002)
"Hunton and Johnson described their war work as a watershed moment in the advancement of the race...were largely concerned with representing elite black womanhood." - Private Politics and Public Voices Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal (2006)
What role did African-American women play in the war effort during World War One, and how well were they treated for their efforts?
In 1920, two World War One YMCA volunteers, both African-American women, would co-author a book of their wartime experiences in France in their book titled, "Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces." (Co-authored by Addie W. Hunton [1875-1943] and Kathryn Magnolia Johnson [1878 –1954])
In introducing their book, the authors write:
"The authors have written because to them it was given to represent in France the womanhood of our race in America those fine mothers, wives, sisters and friends who so courageously gave the very flower of their young manhood to face the ravages of war. That we then should make an effort to interpret with womanly comprehension the loyalty and bravery of their men seems not only a slight recompense for all they have given, but an imperative duty.
"We believe that undervaluation is a more subtle and unkind foe than overvaluation, so that we have not refrained in our story from a large measure of praise for a large measure of loyal and patriotic service, performed ofttimes under the most trying conditions."
During World War I, YMCA raised and spent over $155 million on welfare efforts for American soldiers. It deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the military's morale and comfort operations worldwide.
The co-authors Hunton and Johnson were two of three black women assigned to work with the 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. Hunton soon became exposed to the racism against African American soldiers. She saw efforts by the American Command to regulate the lives of black soldiers, recreating a system reminiscent of Jim Crow.
About the authors:
Addie Waites Hunton was born June 11, 1866, and died June 22, 1943. She was an African American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the YWCA, served as the national organizer for the NACW from 1906 to 1910, and served with the YMCA in the U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League.
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was born December 15, 1878, and died November 13, 1954. She was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the NAACP. After criticizing the organization's all white leadership roles, Johnson joined the YMCA. After the organization sent Johnson to France to observe during World War I, Johnson published a book about her findings called, Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). This book was written with Addie Waites Hunton. The rest of Johnson's life was dedicated to spreading African American activism across the states through book selling to help in the campaign for civil rights.
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"Hunton and Johnson had the longest active service of any black women in France...were greeted with cries of 'Ooh-la-la' from black soldiers." - American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military (2002)
"Provides insight into...the interactions between the French and the black soldiers...Hunton and Johnson...felt compelled to leave an African-American historical record of the war." - Negritude Women (2002)
"Hunton and Johnson described their war work as a watershed moment in the advancement of the race...were largely concerned with representing elite black womanhood." - Private Politics and Public Voices Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal (2006)
What role did African-American women play in the war effort during World War One, and how well were they treated for their efforts?
In 1920, two World War One YMCA volunteers, both African-American women, would co-author a book of their wartime experiences in France in their book titled, "Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces." (Co-authored by Addie W. Hunton [1875-1943] and Kathryn Magnolia Johnson [1878 –1954])
In introducing their book, the authors write:
"The authors have written because to them it was given to represent in France the womanhood of our race in America those fine mothers, wives, sisters and friends who so courageously gave the very flower of their young manhood to face the ravages of war. That we then should make an effort to interpret with womanly comprehension the loyalty and bravery of their men seems not only a slight recompense for all they have given, but an imperative duty.
"We believe that undervaluation is a more subtle and unkind foe than overvaluation, so that we have not refrained in our story from a large measure of praise for a large measure of loyal and patriotic service, performed ofttimes under the most trying conditions."
During World War I, YMCA raised and spent over $155 million on welfare efforts for American soldiers. It deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the military's morale and comfort operations worldwide.
The co-authors Hunton and Johnson were two of three black women assigned to work with the 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. Hunton soon became exposed to the racism against African American soldiers. She saw efforts by the American Command to regulate the lives of black soldiers, recreating a system reminiscent of Jim Crow.
About the authors:
Addie Waites Hunton was born June 11, 1866, and died June 22, 1943. She was an African American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the YWCA, served as the national organizer for the NACW from 1906 to 1910, and served with the YMCA in the U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League.
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was born December 15, 1878, and died November 13, 1954. She was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the NAACP. After criticizing the organization's all white leadership roles, Johnson joined the YMCA. After the organization sent Johnson to France to observe during World War I, Johnson published a book about her findings called, Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). This book was written with Addie Waites Hunton. The rest of Johnson's life was dedicated to spreading African American activism across the states through book selling to help in the campaign for civil rights.
Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces
"These patriotic women gave of themselves despite the bigotry of white military officials and hostile reactions...recalled the kinder treatment they received from the French." - Women and the Historical Enterprise in America (2004)
"Hunton and Johnson had the longest active service of any black women in France...were greeted with cries of 'Ooh-la-la' from black soldiers." - American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military (2002)
"Provides insight into...the interactions between the French and the black soldiers...Hunton and Johnson...felt compelled to leave an African-American historical record of the war." - Negritude Women (2002)
"Hunton and Johnson described their war work as a watershed moment in the advancement of the race...were largely concerned with representing elite black womanhood." - Private Politics and Public Voices Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal (2006)
What role did African-American women play in the war effort during World War One, and how well were they treated for their efforts?
In 1920, two World War One YMCA volunteers, both African-American women, would co-author a book of their wartime experiences in France in their book titled, "Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces." (Co-authored by Addie W. Hunton [1875-1943] and Kathryn Magnolia Johnson [1878 –1954])
In introducing their book, the authors write:
"The authors have written because to them it was given to represent in France the womanhood of our race in America those fine mothers, wives, sisters and friends who so courageously gave the very flower of their young manhood to face the ravages of war. That we then should make an effort to interpret with womanly comprehension the loyalty and bravery of their men seems not only a slight recompense for all they have given, but an imperative duty.
"We believe that undervaluation is a more subtle and unkind foe than overvaluation, so that we have not refrained in our story from a large measure of praise for a large measure of loyal and patriotic service, performed ofttimes under the most trying conditions."
During World War I, YMCA raised and spent over $155 million on welfare efforts for American soldiers. It deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the military's morale and comfort operations worldwide.
The co-authors Hunton and Johnson were two of three black women assigned to work with the 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. Hunton soon became exposed to the racism against African American soldiers. She saw efforts by the American Command to regulate the lives of black soldiers, recreating a system reminiscent of Jim Crow.
About the authors:
Addie Waites Hunton was born June 11, 1866, and died June 22, 1943. She was an African American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the YWCA, served as the national organizer for the NACW from 1906 to 1910, and served with the YMCA in the U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League.
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was born December 15, 1878, and died November 13, 1954. She was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the NAACP. After criticizing the organization's all white leadership roles, Johnson joined the YMCA. After the organization sent Johnson to France to observe during World War I, Johnson published a book about her findings called, Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). This book was written with Addie Waites Hunton. The rest of Johnson's life was dedicated to spreading African American activism across the states through book selling to help in the campaign for civil rights.
"Hunton and Johnson had the longest active service of any black women in France...were greeted with cries of 'Ooh-la-la' from black soldiers." - American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military (2002)
"Provides insight into...the interactions between the French and the black soldiers...Hunton and Johnson...felt compelled to leave an African-American historical record of the war." - Negritude Women (2002)
"Hunton and Johnson described their war work as a watershed moment in the advancement of the race...were largely concerned with representing elite black womanhood." - Private Politics and Public Voices Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal (2006)
What role did African-American women play in the war effort during World War One, and how well were they treated for their efforts?
In 1920, two World War One YMCA volunteers, both African-American women, would co-author a book of their wartime experiences in France in their book titled, "Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces." (Co-authored by Addie W. Hunton [1875-1943] and Kathryn Magnolia Johnson [1878 –1954])
In introducing their book, the authors write:
"The authors have written because to them it was given to represent in France the womanhood of our race in America those fine mothers, wives, sisters and friends who so courageously gave the very flower of their young manhood to face the ravages of war. That we then should make an effort to interpret with womanly comprehension the loyalty and bravery of their men seems not only a slight recompense for all they have given, but an imperative duty.
"We believe that undervaluation is a more subtle and unkind foe than overvaluation, so that we have not refrained in our story from a large measure of praise for a large measure of loyal and patriotic service, performed ofttimes under the most trying conditions."
During World War I, YMCA raised and spent over $155 million on welfare efforts for American soldiers. It deployed over 25,000 staff in military units and bases from Siberia to Egypt to France. They took over the military's morale and comfort operations worldwide.
The co-authors Hunton and Johnson were two of three black women assigned to work with the 200,000 segregated black troops stationed in France. Hunton soon became exposed to the racism against African American soldiers. She saw efforts by the American Command to regulate the lives of black soldiers, recreating a system reminiscent of Jim Crow.
About the authors:
Addie Waites Hunton was born June 11, 1866, and died June 22, 1943. She was an African American suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the YWCA, served as the national organizer for the NACW from 1906 to 1910, and served with the YMCA in the U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League.
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson was born December 15, 1878, and died November 13, 1954. She was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the NAACP. After criticizing the organization's all white leadership roles, Johnson joined the YMCA. After the organization sent Johnson to France to observe during World War I, Johnson published a book about her findings called, Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). This book was written with Addie Waites Hunton. The rest of Johnson's life was dedicated to spreading African American activism across the states through book selling to help in the campaign for civil rights.
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| BN ID: | 2940161033791 |
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| Publisher: | Far West Trial Adventure |
| Publication date: | 04/24/2022 |
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