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Colored officers and the regular army

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@ University of Massachusetts, Amherst

United StatesWar Department

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Regarding the rejection by the Chief of Staff of a finding by the U.S. Army' board which declared African Americans unqualified to be officers due to "qualities inherent in the Negro race". Most likely collected for W. E. B. Du Bois' proposed book "The Black Man in the Wounded World".
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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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University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Keywords

  1. African American Troops
  2. African Americans
  3. World War, 1914 1918

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