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Seeing the Big Picture

You will see a variety of photographs and documents from World War I and immediately following the war in the grid below. Click on each primary source to carefully analyze it, then match it to the correct description.

As you work, make a list of how African Americans were being denied their civil rights. Can you put their treatment into categories?

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To the extent possible under law, National Archives Foundation has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “African American Soldiers and Civil Rights During WWI”