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Rich man's war, poor man's fight : race, class, and power in the rural South during the first world war

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Jeanette Keith trace this resistance; including whites' political opposition to militarism, southern blacks' reluctance to serve a nation that refused to respect their rights, and anger at class bias in federal conscription policies

eBook, English, ©2004
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2004