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Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9780817389277 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0817316167 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0817354921 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780817316167 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780817354923 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Print version: Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008] viii, 275 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9780817354923

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Alabama, April 1917 / Martin T. Olliff -- Military participation at home and abroad, 1917-1918 / Ruth Smith Truss -- "Tenting tonight on the old camp grounds" : Alabama’s military bases in World War I / Wesley Phillips Newton -- Alabama’s Black Baptist leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War I / Wilson Fallin, Jr. -- A call to arms for African Americans during the age of Jim Crow : Black Alabamians’ response to the U.S. declaration of war in 1917 / David Alsobrook -- From the cotton field to the great waterway : African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War I / Victoria E. Ott -- Mobile in World War I / Michael V.R. Thomason -- The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917-1918 / Dowe Littleton -- "Can all we can, and can the Kaiser, too" : the Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club / Martin T. Olliff -- World War I : catalyst for social change in Alabama / Robert Saunders, Jr. -- Memorializing World War I in Alabama / Robert J. Jakeman.

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