Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I Symposium and Commonwealth soldiers—helped to turn

and Commonwealth soldiers—helped to turn the tide on the Western Front

and the challenges they still face in the twenty-first century

Conceived as a long

and shifting alliances helped to bring about the failure of the long peace and the outbreak of a war that transformed Europe and the world

Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I Symposium and Commonwealth soldiers—helped to turnDescription by Stephen L. Harris Paperback When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the 15th N. Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th U. S. Infantry. Led by mostly inexperienced white and black officers, these men not only received little instruction at their training