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With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include:* African Aid Society * African-Americans for Humanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * Black Women's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science * National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists * National Dental Association * National Medical Association * Negro Railway Labor Executives

Introduction -- The land of Jim Crow: African Americans on the eve of World War I -- From field to factory: the wartime migration of African Americans -- Fighting the fight: the struggle for black officers and combat soldiers -- Raising a Jim Crow Army: the mobilization and training of African American troops -- Over there: African American soldiers in France -- Closing ranks? African Americans on the home front -- Returning to racism -- Appendix: Documents

In Caring for Equality David McBride chronicles the struggle by African Americans and their white allies to improve poor black health conditions as well as inadequate medical care-caused by slavery, racism, and discrimination-since the arrival of African slaves in America.