Colored Over There

A digital history project exploring the Great War through an African Diasporic Lens, 1914-1919 #WWI (run by @theglamacademic)

[Russell Contreras @RussContreras]

A Texas woman, curious about what happened to a uncle who died while serving in World War I, found his resting place in France — likely one of several Mexican Americans who died abroad and whose stories have been largely forgotten #wwi @ProfRamos19 https://t.co/DA4e19LEAU

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

Join us this Friday, Dec. 3 for a virtual program that explores the varied ways in which the French have honored African American troops and the impact of this relationship on the French cultural landscape.

Register for the free, virtual event: https://t.co/mhsY9IcY4A

[Colored Over There @coloredovrthere]

A video of the WWI Memorial sculpture rendering.

No Black people, I don't think.

[Colored Over There @coloredovrthere]

@highleyjane Send me an email at [email protected]!

[This day in WWI @ThisDayInWWI]

Feb 12 1919 "Jazz Band and Leader Back with [African American] 15th New York. Lt James Reese Europe who for four years [was] New York Society's favorite orchestra (dance) leader formerly with Vernon Castle returned with his regiment the 369th Infantry" https://t.co/XbdaMmuCI4

[American Civil War Museum @ACWMuseum]

Here is another image from our John H. Motley collection of items from African American #militaryhistory. It depicts some of the 1,000 men who entered the U.S. Army's Fort Des Moines training camp as the first black officer candidates during WWI. #BlackHistoryMonth

[The New York Historical @NYHistory]

These images of an African American military unit were likely taken not long after the U.S. entered World War I.⁣ The location of the camp is unknown. Over 200,000 African Americans served in the war, predominately in segregated service units. https://t.co/UToNcfcMRc

[U.S. Army Reserve @USArmyReserve]

Do you know the story of the only regiment commanded entirely by black officers during #WWI?

Read about it here: https://t.co/9bbm5s8a5p

@USArmy | #BlackHistoryMonth2021

[NationalArchivesATL @atlantaarchives]

To wrap up this #ArchivesHashtagParty, this WWI draft card for Harry Pace, founder of the Northeastern Life Insurance Company (once the largest Black-owned business in the North) showed he once worked for the Standard Life Insurance Company in Atlanta. #ArchivesBlackEducation

[MacArthur Memorial @MacArthur1880]

During #WWI, the US Army was ordered to create two black combat divisions. One was the 93rd Division. Against all odds, the 93rd saw combat in most major sectors & campaigns of the war. To learn more, check out this #MacWWIPodcast 👇
https://t.co/NcxbidVq8c

[Leo E. Landis @StateCuratorIA]

Love this patriotic photo of young women from collections of State Historical Society of Iowa in WWI “War Camp” Collection, it could be a group training for military exhibition as reported in Iowa State Bystander, 9/27/1918. @IowaMuseum @BlackIowa @IowaCulture @NMAAHC

[Doughboy Foundation @ww1memorialdc]

Honoring Black History Month: Fascinating Online Exhibition "MAKE WAY FOR DEMOCRACY!" from The National #WWI Museum & Memorial portraying the lives of African Americans during #WW1: https://t.co/XCYb3Djlyh

[Doughboy Foundation @ww1memorialdc]

Kansas City's #WWI Museum is avoiding layoffs by giving employees thousands of pages from its archives to digitize.

10 have joined a team to digitize thousands of letters, diaries & journals: https://t.co/c9tymxCoDS

[BlackPoppyRose @Blackpoppyrose]

Armistice Day @UniWestminster in Regent Street @Blackpoppyrose wreaths laid in remembrance

[Doughboy Foundation @ww1memorialdc]

In 2018 the National Cathedral Tolled the Bells. Join us & toll "Bells of Peace” 11/11/19 11am local. A #WWI Remembrance of Respect & Honor for all who served & sacrificed in #WW1 & since. No Bell? No problem! We have an App: https://t.co/pLDyzVmcPP #TollTheBells

[WW1EAfricaCampaign @WW1EACampaign]

Last November the @SarovaHotelsKen put up a #WW1 memorial to the 'unknown' African soldiers & porters who fought & died during the European Great War fought in East Africa from 1914 to 1918.
You can get it at the Mashoti Fort #Kenya
#RemembranceDay2019 (pic:guerillasoftsavo)

[Colored Over There @coloredovrthere]

MP @DavidLammy on Unremembered - black soldiers and participants in WWI
https://t.co/QQTaQxfHjW

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Just in case you need it spelling out https://t.co/QBQokQeuCW

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

Remember when I said that stories matter? When I said that white supremacist nostalgia like #Dunkirk harms us? That!

https://t.co/3NTYuL3Thn

[Colored Over There @coloredovrthere]

First African American fighter pilot, Eugene Bullard, gets statue in Georgia https://t.co/L9B7OY3hid