Abstract
Abstract This chapter focuses on the influence of World War I on Black American activists. It starts with President Woodrow Wilson mandating a system of Jim Crow segregation in the government while declaring war to promote self-determination and equal rights around the world. W. E. B. Du Bois took a risk and encouraged African Americans to “close ranks” in support of the war effort. While Black people engaged in the war effort, the war also triggered changes in increased membership and mobilization within the NAACP, mass migration of Blacks toward the North and toward cities within the South, and greater employment opportunities for Blacks. The chapter also mentions how white Southerners and Northerners resisted Black demands for equity, violently repressed Black migrants, and defended the politics of white supremacy.
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