in this country.

One Negro, Ralph W. Tyler, served as an accredited war correspondent,
attached to the staff of General Pershing, Dr. R.R. Moton, who
succeeded the late Booker T. Washington as head of the Tuskegee
Institute, was sent on a special mission to France by President Wilson
and Secretary Baker.

A race woman, Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson of Wilmington, Delaware, was
named as a field worker to mobilize the Negro women of the country for
war work. Her activities were conducted in connection with the Women's
Committee of the Council of National Defense.

The most conspicuous honor paid to a Negro by the administration and the
war department, was in the appointment, October 1, 1917, of Emmett J.
Scott as special assistant to the Secretary of War. This was done that
the administration might not be accused of failing to grant full
protection to the Negroes, and that a thorough examination might be made
into all matters affecting their relation to the war and its many
agencies.

Having been for 18 years confidential secretary to Booker T. Washington,
and being at the time of his appointment secretary of the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, Mr. Scott was peculiarly
fitted to render necessary advice to the war department with respect to
the Negroes of the various states, to look after all matters affecting
the interests of Negro selectives and enlisted men, and to inquire into
the treatment accorded them by the various officials connected with the
war department. In the position occupied by him, he was thus enabled to
obtain a proper perspective both of the attitude of selective service
officials to the Negro, and of the Negro to the war, especially to the
draft. In a memorandum on the subject addressed to the Provost Marshall
General, December 12, 1918, he wrote:

"The attitude of the Negro was one of complete acceptance of the draft,
in fact of an eagerness to accept its terms. There was a deep
resentment in many quarters that he was not permitted to volunteer, as
white men by the thousands were permitted to do in connection with
National Guard units and other branches of military service which were
closed to colored men. One of the brightest chapters in the whole
history of the war is the Negro's eager acceptance of the draft and his
splendid willingness to fight. His only resentment was due to the
limited extent to which he was allowed to join and participate in
combatant or 'fighting' units