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From "a boy from Camp Eustis"; describing the Fort as "hell on earth" and elaborating on efforts to complain formally to the War Dept., noting in dismay that he and other draftees do "nothing but laboring work," are prevented from making or receiving visits, grossly underpaid, victims of overt racial discrimination, and hugely mistreated despite their immeasurable sacrifice for their country.
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Correspondence Letters To The Editor
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All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.Contact host institution for more information.
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Keywords

  1. African American Soldiers
  2. African Americans
  3. Discrimination
  4. Discrimination In The Military
  5. History
  6. World War, 1914 1918

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