The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Sports Army Chaplain Corps

Army Chaplain Corps

American society did not suffer the consequences of the Great War that virtually all European countries knew—a lack of perspective that the National World War I Museum seeks to correct

it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their country

who have served in our armed forces since the American Revolution

both men knew they had to write about it

The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War Sports Army Chaplain CorpsDescription by Chad L. Williams Hardcover The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War Iand a new understanding of one of the great twentieth century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to close ranks and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest